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Practice Writing Students Are Being Constantly Judged Essay

Practice Writing Students are being constantly judged and analyzed based upon their academic achievements. The texts presented question the validity of assessment and question how and why students are limited in their ambitions. Emphasis is put on certain aspects of academia but others are overlooked entirely. There is a decided need for reevaluation of what should be expected of students and how they are judged by those in positions of authority over them.

Students who attend Ivy League schools are supposed to be somehow more intelligent or more capable than students who go to public schools (Easterbook). However, research indicates that the only thing that matters is that a student attends some college. People who go to college will generally earn more money than those that do not, but the type of school does not necessarily impact the income level of the person.

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That is to say that a high grade in a private institution would probably earn a lower grade in a public one. The grade point average (GPA) is higher for private schools because of pressure on instructors to grade lightly rather than because of substantial levels of achievement. Students are not learning anything more in private schools but get higher grades because of the high cost of attending private institutions. In total, students are not doing as well in the current time as they have historically. On average, GPAs have dropped half a point in the last thirty years (Average).
Writing is a process of creative thought and revision of original ideas. A change has been made in recent decades so that the process of writing is given attention rather than…

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Average grade awarded Fall term, 1993-2006. CSU Sacramento Factbook. Office of Institutional

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Average grade awarded for academic year, 1917-1948. Annual Report of the President of Stanford University. Web. 2012. http://collections.stanford.edu/university

Easterbrook, Gregg. "Who Needs Harvard?" Atlantic Magazine. Oct. 2004. Print.
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