My 54 Year Love Affair with the SAT reading response

This reading was very interesting because it was about something that all of us can relate to, the SAT! In the reading Stanley Kaplan, describes how he first encountered the SAT, when tutoring a young girl for it. He was very intrigued by this new test that got students thinking above and beyond just actual facts. This is how he liked to teach his students, so he did very well in tutoring other students for this test and began to make a good living off of tutoring. Kaplan believes that the SAT was the greatest and most efficient way to test students and give everyone even ground in being accepted to college at least on an academic level.

Kaplan argues his point very well with his personal experiences. Where he says that the regular student that he was helping was getting into college without the help of an alumnus parent or being from a donor family. So this gave these regular students and their parents hope that they could go to college.

Even though this was the start of the SAT and many things have changed about the test since this, I agree with Kaplan. It gives everyone a fair chance to get excepted into college and to be considered for certain scholarships. With the SAT scores and the other things that they consider when you are applying to college is the best way and most fair to consider students. Being from a small town I can say that if it I had gone to college back in Kaplan's time I probably wouldn't of known where to start or even think about going to college without the SAT.

"It could help democratize American education by ushering a larger, more diverse group of students into the world of higher education." I picked this line because it explains just how the SAT changed the acceptance of more students. And just how something that we dread and take for granted, could not be there and make it more difficult to get into the college of our choice.

Thoughts on Class 1-23

First of all going over the right way to write a post and comment on blogger really helped me see where I was lacking in my posts and comments. This really helped me because now I know what exactly Meagan is looking for. But what got me really thinking in class was our discussion on the cartoon on education. This cartoon is the direct reflection of how the education system has changed throughout the years. During our discussion everybody had a lot of different ideas about why and what this cartoon depicted, but the ones that got me thinking were the ideas of how much the items that are being taught have changed, but the style of teaching hasn't. With new technology being developed every day the youth of America is getting taught things at a very young age. With all this new knowledge the style of teaching hasn't changed as much. When we did our skits in class, most of us chose to have a teacher at the head of the class and the students in desks looking up at the teacher. In my last post I was wondering how this classroom setting effected the students performance.That's still a question that I have, this style of teaching is probably not the best way to teach the youth with the amount of knowledge that they have.

class wednesday

In class Wednesday, I loved watching and coming up with the skits for interactions between the types of teachers and types of students there are. The dicussion we had after really opened my eyes to how everyone put together a classroom setting where the teacher was at the head of the classroom where there was a good studious student and then a student that didn't pay attention or interrupted class. On the other hand the class came up with many different types of teachers we had teachers that didn't care, mean teachers, and very thoughtful teachers.I thought that is knd of interesting that even though we were working apart our skits were so similar. This made me think about how classrooom sturtures are around the world, I know how we view them but it's probably very different other places.

Schooling Trajectory

My timeline was mostly composed of my growth throughout my schooling. It begins with my first big final, or EOG, in the 3rd grade. From there throughout middle school and high school I took honors and AP classes, getting me ready for yet other big tests, AP tests. AP classes were the closest example I had to being in an actual college class. So this helped me prepare for my college experience.  Then came applying to college and then finally getting accepted to college. During my path through school I discovered that I really enjoy school and I'm really good at it as well. Being from a small town I went to elementary, middle and high school with the same people, so all my friends throughout this time affected me because they kept me on a straight and narrow path. Their goals were the same as mine, so it was easy to stay focused around them. The most influential person in my path definitely has to be my mom, she will always be my number one fan and her encouragement always kept me going. When I look back on my path I realize that school just came naturally to me and that I had it pretty easy compared to other people that weren't so lucky.