Have you ever thought to move from the chaos of the city to the calmness of the countryside?. Nowadays, it is more common than ever seeing families moving to the countryside and of course, there are several reasons why; Connect with nature, connect with family and contamination at the City.
first of all, and one of the main reasons is to connect with nature. Cities lack green areas because of industries and buildings. The calm and peace that are forest offers you is irreplaceable, it goes beyond just being surrounded by nature, it is to connect with your internal soul, to be more creative, to enjoy every second of your life and it prevents stress as well.
The second reason is to connect with people, with family specially. Nowadays, kids are addicted to phones or Internet, and we all know that it is not a good way for a kid to grow up. Moving to the countryside, boosts your creativity and you can find a lot of ways to entertain yourself, without using technological devices. Like go for a walk or play cards all together at night, since in some places in the countryside there is no signal or Internet connection.
And last but not least, we need to consider the contamination. Cities are full of smog and people’s health is directly being affected. People suffer of deseases or conditions like terrible headaches. Yet, the air of the countryside is clean and fresh all the time.
To conclude, this were some of the reasons why young people should think about moving to the countryside; nature is key for creativity and to connect with yourself, leaving behind technological devices can give you peace and, the fresh air of the countryside can definitely help improve well-being. So, would you ever considered to move from the city to the countryside?
Hello everybody, Isabella’s here and today I’m going to talk about my language 4 self assessment.
Starting by saying that this year was difficult for me in a lot of ways for a lot of reasons academically talking, but it was much better than the past year because this year I could grow up in use of English that was my weakest point all over the years. I think that I’m also doing well with all the other subjects, but it can always be better, for example, in listening the expectations were higher this semester and let me see that I wasn’t very good on listening but now I can improve it. I mean every semester it’s going to be more challenging than the other.
Another thing that I want to talk about is about receiving feedback from my classmates from language six, as everybody knows receiving feedback from your peers specially, it’s always helpful and meaningful because between us we can see our weak points and also know on what we are good at.
I have to be honest and not always I see the feedbacks but recently I have heard a few of them and it helped me a lot to knew what fortresses I have recording audios.
Thank you also teacher James for all this years of phonetics it wasn’t an easy class actually the first year that I have phonetics. I love it, but the third was terrible for me.
As next year, we are not going to have phonetics anymore. I want to say thank you a lot for all the knowledge and all laughs in class. I will never forget my dubbings 🤍
“To succeed in America, it’s better to be born rich than smart,” Anthony P. Carnevale, director of the CEW and lead author of the report, tells CNBC Make It. “People with talent often don’t succeed. What we found in this study is that people with talent that come from disadvantaged households don’t do as well as people with very little talent from advantaged households.”
Carnevale and his team analyzed data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) to trace the outcomes of students from kindergarten through adulthood, assessing intellect according to performance on standardized math tests. The researchers then categorized students by socioeconomic status, considering household income, parents’ educational attainment and parents’ occupational prestige (a measure of social standing, power and earnings ability as defined by the Duncan Socioeconomic Index).
What they found was that poor kindergartners with good scores are less likely to graduate from high school, graduate from college or earn a high wage than their affluent peers with bad grades.
Specifically, the study found that a kindergarten student from the bottom 25% of socioeconomic status with test scores from the top 25% of students has a 31% chance of earning a college education and working a job that pays at least $35,000 by the time they are 25, and at least $45,000 by the time they are 35.
A kindergarten student from the top 25% of socioeconomic status with test scores from the bottom 25% of students had a 71% chance of achieving the same milestones.
Even if students from disadvantaged households do beat the odds and earn a college degree, they still face challenges. The Georgetown study found that kindergartners from low socioeconomic status families who scored in the top 25% and later earned college degrees had a 76% chance of reaching high socioeconomic status by the age of 25.
By comparison, their low-scoring, high socioeconomic status peers who earned college degrees compared had a 91% chance of maintaining their status.
Carnevale says there are several variables that contribute to this dynamic.
“People tend to blame the schools, and they are at fault for not saving people who start out smart,” he says. “But there are also a variety of factors that have to do with race and class and gender and everything from books in the home to how many words you know when you’re in the 1st grade, too. Disadvantage and advantage are very complex.”
The Georgetown study also explores the impact of the additional advantages experienced by the children of wealthy families. In 2016, families from the highest income quintile spent about $8,600 per year on child enrichment activities while families in the lowest quintile spent closer $1,700.
“When we follow these kids over all those years, grade by grade, what we find out is they all stumble. The difference is between who stumbles and gets back up again and who stumbles and doesn’t,” Carnevale says. He believes that if resources and support can help low-scoring advantaged students overcome challenges and reach success, similar support could also help high-scoring disadvantaged students.
Carnevale points to wide range of public policies that could help address educational inequality, including universal preschool, equitable K-12 school funding, diversifying schools with high- and low-performing students in the same classes, ensuring stable living wages for parents and fostering safe schools and neighborhoods.
“These are not cheap and easy things to do, and [don’t] happen overnight, but we’ve never built comprehensive policies that begin with the neighborhood or the school.”
While some, he says, may argue that the cost to implement these policies would be too high, “the other view, which is also accurate, is that the economic loss in human capital and human capabilities is equal to the cost.”
Hellooo everyone <3 Sooo this is a new semester, new goals, new expectations and experiences. I want to start saying that I don’t want to have like big expectations for this semesters cause maybe am not going to achieve it but not in a sadly manner hahha, I mean, I’m just realistic.
Everything was wonderful in this first semester, meeting new people, learn about new things, get to know better my teachers and I’m also super grateful that teachers were always telling me that they are proud of me bcs this year I’m more responsible with my grades, assistance and evaluations. I love u all 🤍 I can say that having allowed me to repeat English has been one of the best experiences of my life.
This semester professor James also highlighted my responsibility with the e-portafolio cause I’ve almost done all the tasks, I only missed two of them.
For this semester I hope to get higher grades in use of English bcs it is my weakness. Talking about subjects, so that’s going to be my focus this semester, obviously without putting aside the other subjects.
My goal have always been pass the exams, but this semester I proposed myself a big biggggg goal that is to exempt myself from everything, with effort anything can be achievable.
