Essays on Educational Attainment

Based on the tallied results of the life expectancy quiz, my life expectancy figure years is about 100 years, which is very uplifting for me, considering that some people are not expected to live that long. It reinforced my resolve to maintain if not improve my positive habits, not just my diet and physical activity but also my emotions and identify bad habits where I can improve (FLAG, 2013). I expected that factors such as my family history, age, gender, diet, and lifestyle would affect my life expectancy. However, I am surprised that “little things” such as my educational ...

A single parent as per Hetherington (2014), is an uncoupled person who spends most of the days’ responsibilities raising a child or children. The term can also be used to refer to a person who is unmarried, widowed or divorced but has a dependent child or children. The primary caregiver of a single family structure is the mother. Single parent structures are as a result of calamities such as death of the partner, divorce, or unplanned pregnancy. Currently in the United states single dads make approximately of 6% of the entire households while single mums make up approximately a ...

My topic for discussion is, “How Do Educational Attainment Affect Obesity Cases in the Modern Society?” I used the ABCDS of internet search and I compiled the following report. I conducted an online search on the topic and I picked Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention report on the topic. Below is a summary of the article I chose for this topic: Bias: The article is an actual report, and a summary of complex research activities on the topic of obesity cases among the various groups of people in the United States of America. Therefore, the article is neutral ...

Video Games Negatively Impact College Students’ Performance in School

Introduction For college students, a high rate of academic performance during school years is strongly associated with future career success. With this objective in mind, college experience supplies students with an environment where they have an opportunity to gain relevant knowledge and acquire related skills, which are likely to contribute to their future career paths. Recent technological advances have changed the way young individuals obtain new information and communicate with their families and peers. In this case changes in their social development are dependent on facilitating access to information, sharing personal data, and promoting communication via the Internet (Lepp ...

Dear _______,

After researching about program management, I have come across different perspectives that made me think that pursuing a career in this field can be promising for one’s professional and personal growth. This letter contains several of my findings about program management and why I decided to pursue a career in this field. A career in program management can be challenging and I found that any candidate for this position have to possess certain characteristics that will enable him to deliver according to management expectations. The complex responsibilities require that the program manager must have the core competencies, attributes ...

Executive Summary

This paper assesses the determinants of earnings among workers in mid-Atlantic. The study uses a sample of 3,000 workers. The data for the study was collected between 2003 and 2009. The average age of the participants was 42.41 years. All the study participants were male. The study participants had diverse demographic profiles in terms of race, educational background, and marital status. A preliminary analysis was conducted to identify factors that show some relationship with wages among the variables in the dataset. A preliminary analysis revealed that wages appear to be influenced by age, educational attainment, and race. A ...

Article Summary

In the article, Marger describes the demographic characteristics of Hispanic Americans and elaborates how they differ from Euro-Americans, and across the ethnic groups constituting Latinos. According to the article, most Hispanic immigrants arrived in the U.S. through illegal means from Mexico and South American countries. While the majority came in search for better economic prospects (e.g. Mexicans and Puerto Ricans), others, mainly Cubans, came as political refugees. Latinos account for the largest minority group in the country due to massive immigration and high birth rates, causing significant economic and political implications in the U.S. Generally, they display lower educational ...

Abstract

Can female participation in the labor force contribute to economic growth? Is there a causal relationship between female participation in the labor force and economic growth? This paper addresses these questions using the vector error correction model. For this study, an annual time series data for the period 1970 to 2012 for the United States has been used. The results show that there exists a co-integration between female participation and GDP per capita, which is a proxy measure for economic development. The result does not support a two-way causality between the variables. However, a causality running from GDP per ...

There are a number of theories that support the reason why people choose to enter self-employment, even in a culture where a huge number of companies and organizations offer employment to the mass population. According to the disadvantage theory, minorities who are being excluded from the labor market activity are actually forced into looking for substitute employment. At times when there is less to be expected from the labor economy, people would have to choose between unemployment and having low wages. These are the vulnerable workers who seek self-employment due to increased rate of unemployment and some augmented business ...

Puget Sound Economic District is a federally designated Economic Development District (EDD) covering King, Kitsap, Pierce and Snohomish counties. This economic region is recognized by the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) an arm of the U.S. Department of Commerce tasked with promoting regional economic development across the nation through grants and awards as mandated by the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of Puget Sound Economic District, its economy and demographics. In what follows I shall compare district level to and state wide data on business clusters and industry presence, population ...

According to the structural-functionalist perspective, educational institutions must provide their students with effective instructions, socialization opportunities, custodial care, sort individuals into statuses based on their academic achievements and fields of study (Mooney, Know & Schacht, 2014, p. 243-244). The failure of educational institutions to successfully perform its functions is determine by various social issues such as poverty, unemployment, and delinquency. However, an ineffective education system can also cause those issues by promoting inequality among students based on their social status or family background, gender, and race and ethnicity. Social status and family background are the most important predictors of academic ...

Introduction

Texas is one of the fascinating yet dynamic States of America. In 1980, the total population of Texas was around 11 million which got double in the 2000s. Today, this developing state population is around 23 million. Every developing state or country faces few public issues which need to be overcome to augment the welfare of human beings. Texas ranks considerably lower than the other states in many service provision areas. The emerging economy still faces numerous challenges but unable to deal proactively. There are different public issues that are faced by Texas people. Among all, the selected public ...

Introduction

Founded more than 70 years ago, the Westside Community Schools is an award-winning district (District 66) situated in Omaha, Nebraska. The schools serve a broad range of school-going children from pre-school to 12th grade. In the academic year 2013-2014, the district recorded an enrollment of 6, 173 pupils (Westside Community Schools, 2016). Westside comprises ten neighborhood elementary schools (pre-school and kindergarten), a secondary Career Center for grades 10-12, a middle school for grade 7-8, and a high school for grades 9-12 (Westside Community Schools, 2016). Westside also operates Before- and After-School Age programs such as full-day care services, preschool ...

While the possible risks of using chemical substances for recreational purposes are well documented, these risks are, for the most part, personal and do not have an impact on other people. Of course, drugs can also lower one’s inhibitions resulting in dangerous actions, but if such actions are minimized, the dangers are low. For this reason, I believe that there is nothing wrong with the use of drugs for recreational purposes. In fact, some chemical substances that are legal, such as alcohol and tobacco, pose greater potential risks than illegal drugs. In particular, marijuana use creates less of ...

Summary of the Paper

‘The Great Escape: Intergenerational Mobility in the US since 1994’ by Nathaniel G. Hilger presents the authors work on how he develops a new method to estimate intergenerational mobility (IM) in educational attainment on US census data spanning 1940-2000. Using the new method, the author measures directly for children still living with parents at ages 26-29 and indirectly for other children using imputation procedure that is validated in multiple datasets thereby spanning the full sample period (Hilger, 1). The method is dubbed ‘new’ because it is the first to estimate educational IM on birth cohorts spanning 1911-1971 in a ...

Introduction of Topic and How It Relates to Education

It is widely acknowledged that the educational process is very important for community improvement. A person develops under various circumstances, but there are basic factors which impact every person, no matter how different his/her life is – that is family (first of all, parents and also siblings and relatives) and educational institution (school, college, etc.). The family is the first environment the child is born and develops in. It is the place where a person establishes his psychological, social, physical, mental, and behavioral character. Parents’ influence lays the ground to the majority of future achievements and failures of a child ...

Earnings Differentials : Understanding the Gender Wage GapTerm Paper Workshop

In a May 2014 document released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics it was reported that although almost as many women as men are in the workforce (52% and 70.2%, respectively), males earn a higher median salary than females regardless of job type or race. Additionally, the most current census data show that women’s average earnings in the United States are only 71.3% of men’s (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2014). This difference in earnings between men and women is not exclusive to the United States; however, it has been noted to be one of the largest ...

Today’s world requires people to earn college credential for financial success. American colleges ensure successful students, but only 56 percent earn a degree in a period of six years. Legislators across the country have realized the problem and are acting to increase college completion rates (Korn & Belkin, 2014). Furthermore, the proportion of adults with college credentials is not keeping pace with other industries countries. The US has an education deficit rate that threatens global competitiveness and the future of country’s economy (Messick, 2013). This paper propose education policies that will promote college completion goals through college rating plan.

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Impact of Racial Discrimination on Wage

There are still incidences of discrimination in the US, where individuals from particular racial group earn less compared to other people considered as dominant in the same job position. Economic offers a lot of empirical evidence that certain racial group including African American, Hispanic and Asian Americans earn a lower wage compared to their counterpart Native Americans. However, the estimate of the wage gap differs widely with variables such as the database used and decomposition methods. According to the efficiency-wage theory, employers do not necessarily pay workers the lowest possible wage rather than the higher wage to motivate them exhibit higher ...

Introduction

Description of Bayside Queens New York Community

Bayside is located within Queens Borough. It is a very affluent middle class community comparable to Douglaston and Middle neck. On the north can be found the Bronx and Little Neck; easterly Cross Island Parkway and Douglaston; to the west Francis Lewis Boulevard/Utopia Parkway and Auburndale; in the south can be found Union Turnpike and Queens Village. Bayside Hills has been recently added as a subdivision of the community. Zip codes 11360, 11361, 11364, 718, 347, 917, 646 are definitive of this location (McKay, 2008). The 83,104 population consists of 65% white; ...

Introduction

New medical treatments and advanced technologies has helped improved the prognosis of most cancers. This has led to change of perception as regards to equating cancer to death. Cancer and blood disorder is a common occurrence. Although there are reduced mortality rate, the effects and complications of treatment has contributed to some forms of burdens in managing such affected children.

Research has shown that children with cancer who are survivors had lower educational attainment compared to their peers (Lancashire et al, 2009). Those children who are usually classified as orthopedically impaired under health laws usually have various forms of academic ...

and Children’s Academic Outcomes? and Children’s Academic Outcomes?

Introduction

There are different ways in which the academic development of children is affected by the manner by which parents relate with them. Child Psychologists, other scholars and parents as well have worked to create the foundation of theories that demonstrates the considerable influence of parenting style on the performance of a child in and out of school. The recent interest in conducting research over the effect of parent-child relationship in the development of a child grew out of the increasing alarm over todays youngsters diminishing social, educational and health status. ...

Introduction

The American Muslim population today is a mosaic of ethical, linguistic, economic, religious, and social group. As the newcomers adjust to the American ways of life, the Native Muslim American are well integrated into the American Society. Researchers have classified the American Muslims according to their religious devotion from highly orthodox to moderate secular. The rapid increase in the American Muslim population today has been associated to factors such as high birth rates, increasing immigration and the conversion of American population into Islam. Currently, they are approximated between five and seven million. Arguably, the living conditions for Muslim American have ...

First Place Fund’s Objectives

First Place Fund has 5 main objectives. The organization’s first objective is housing stability to former foster youth. Its second objective is to provide economic security to the program participants. The organization believes that for former foster youth to maintain housing, they need to engage in wage employment that pays them a wage that matches the cost of living. Its third objective is to provide educational attainment to former foster youth. The organization is of the opinion that financial success is based not only pegged on having wage employment but on other factors, as well. To ensure transitioning foster ...

Culture

Ethnography: Same Race Dating Introduction In many ways race is regarded as the physiological differences among people, which are being codified by language, values, culture, and other explicit sorting that comes to everyone’s head when talking about segregation by characteristics. Among the many factors that determines racial identity is through skin color where light colored skin were identified as someone from the Western hemisphere. Even in the Western regions where the majority of its population was identified as light skin individuals, the mix of other skin tones creates another set of racial subtype. One example is ...

Most people consider higher education to be an advantage and a benefit that is supposed to increase a person’s chances to get a high-paid job and life full of abundance soon after graduation. The side effect that students and their parents usually agree to is high tuition fees and, thus, most probably six-figure student loans that will take a lot of time and effort to repay (Hacker, and Dreifus). Meanwhile, for their book Higher Education: How Colleges are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids — and What We Can Do About It Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus tracked over 900 former Princeton ...

Hispanic was a term that the U.S government adopted in the1970s to be an identityto persons of Latin origin. It was originally used to refer to persons of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, as well as people of Central and South American origin. The Hispanic cultural group is one of the largest ethnic minority groups in the United States of America. For instance, in 2010 census, the Hispanic population in the U.S were over 50 million people, and they comprised 17% of the total U.S. population (Rivera & Nieto, 2003). Attainment of educational is crucial in any ethnic group. And in ...

- Juvenile Delinquency - Theories of Delinquency Throughout history, communities and experts have varying opinions when it comes to explaining why there are juveniles or minors violating rules and laws. According to Martin (2005), early experts and communities tried to explain juvenile delinquency with two theories: demonism and naturalism. Naturalism pertains to the ‘practice of linking human affairs with the natural world, justifying human behavior with the influence of nature.’ For example, if the change due to lunar and solar cycles, human behavior is also affected by these forces. Ancient civilizations in the Mediterranean use this theory ...

Dropping Out or Pushed Out: The Impact of High School Dropout Rate Relative to High Stakes Testing Policy in Wayne County, State of Michigan

Dissertation Prospectus Dropping Out or Pushed Out: The Impact of High School Dropout Rate Relative to High Stakes Testing Policy in Wayne County, State of Michigan <Insert Chair Name>

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Introduction The high school dropout rates in the USA are high such that only 70% of students in public high schools graduate Green, & Foster, 2003). High dropout problem is what school administrators, parents and policy makers have had to deal with for ...

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Chapter One: What Kind of Equality Does Sharia Law Provide?

The Problem Gender Imbalances in the Saudi Arabian Workforce. The Saudi labour market currently presents a series of impressive economic prospects for Saudi Arabia. Moves to improve the Saudi economy through diversification have since earmarked the necessity to raise the value of the Saudi labour market mainly through the improvement of their skills. Mainly possessing a petroleum-based economy bearing the ubiquitous label of being among the largest producers of oil in the world, Saudi Arabia recognizes the need to sustain its economic growth and development through means apart from a highly valuable yet depleting resource. The fact that diversification necessitates the ...

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Executive Summary The University of Maryland is considered as one of the best public universities in the United States. However, the rising cost of tuition fees and other charges has placed public institutions in an awkward situation making it questionable if whether they can provide affordable and quality education in the face of the current economic hardships. Students, on the other hand, could not help but seek for various loans in order to make their way through college. For most families who are earning a median income, sending a single child in college would leave them financially unstable ...

Introduction

In today’s modern society, life after graduation is certainly one of the greatest puzzles of life. Because of the extreme job competition, many underprivileged students who were not able to continue their education up to college may end up looking for a job as their primary source of income. There are companies who offer jobs that specialize in operating heavy machinery and doing jobs which are related in everyday living such as cooks, computer technician, carpentry, artisans and many more. There are also high school students who work part time in order to earn money for their education by ...

Literature Review

Teenage pregnancy is one among the oldest issues of the world. Lina Medina of Peru is in records of Guinness Book, who gave birth at the age of 5 years and 7 months in 1939. Similarly, Mary, mother of Jesus gave birth at the age of 3 years old. Henry VII of England mother was 13 years old when Henry was born in 1457. There are various other examples of the girls who gave birth to a baby in their teenage, i.e. of age between 10 to 17 years. All around the world, there are about 15 million women who ...

Introduction

The Saudi labour market currently presents a series of impressive economic prospects for Saudi Arabia. Moves to improve the Saudi economy through diversification have since earmarked the necessity to raise the value of the Saudi labour market mainly through the improvement of their skills. Mainly possessing a petroleum-based economy bearing the ubiquitous label of being among the largest producers of oil in the world, Saudi Arabia recognizes the need to sustain its economic growth and development through means apart from a highly valuable yet depleting resource. The fact that diversification necessitates the departure from the usual skills involved in currently active industries ...

Currently, one of the most heated topics of debate, capable of eliciting a strong and emotional argument, is how to best address the masses of illegal immigrants currently residing undocumented within the United States. With an estimated eleven to twelve million illegal immigrants currently living in the United States, the question of how to deal with individuals who are living and working in the country illegally is certainly no small one (Bardes 146; Schmidt 81). The basis for various viewpoints range from calm and logical economic analysis to the more primal: an impassioned and territorial, if not aggressive need to defend ...

Abstract

The number of people in the world is ever-increasing in recent times. This growth in the population has been accompanied by an increase in urbanization. This paper addresses the quality of life in the suburban areas. It starts by introducing the general global state of the population. It then takes a look at the urbanization trend over the years and the factors that have led to the growth and expansion of urban areas. With urbanization, changes in the socio-economic spheres of peoples’ lives occur. An increase in urbanization is accompanies by changes in employment rates, literacy levels, healthcare provision, housing ...

The data shows positive skewness in all the three categories. This indicated that most of the data lies on the mean. This implies that most of the people interviewed indicated that the number of married people many married people are happier than the unmarried couples. In regards to the happiness of a relationship with partner, the highest percentage of 5.2% indicated that they were very happy in their marriages, 3.1% of the respondents indicated that they were pretty happy with their marriages while the rests that represented 0.2 percentage indicated that they were not happy with their marriages. ...

Does Higher Educational Attainment Lead to Recued Religious Participation?

With the increasing challenges on the global job market, the desire for greater educational attainment consistently rises. Students seek higher levels of education to fit into the industrial requirements of the professional personnel. However, with the increasing attention diversion to the education sector, students have little time to spend on their religious affiliations. Several studies conducted have revealed that the students of this century tend to identify themselves with nationality over religious affiliation: an individual would prefer identifying himself with his nationality such as American, Asian, or African American to religious affiliation such as Christian, Mormon or Muslim. ...

Definition of Topic

Tuition is usually attributed to educational related costs which are incurred when a person pursues a particular course or a variety of study courses. Consequently, tuition reimbursement programs are a category of employee benefits whereby the employer compensates the workforce for the costs accrued in furthering their education. Thus, tuition reimbursement is a process where the students pay for their learning costs and are later repaid by their respective employers in the future (Martocchio, 2001). Therefore, tuition reimbursement program is a form of learning financial aid that is designed to relieve students the costs of higher learning. However, tuition reimbursement program requires that the student ...

It is a normal occurrence to a person nowadays to see around them people smoking in the streets, restaurants, or even at homes. While many are aware of the health impacts of smoking, people still smoke because it relaxes them and it is a vice that could not be easily removed from a person’s system. As a result of this impassive behavior, the trends of smokers and those who are inflicted of smoking-related illnesses continue to increase each year with deaths recorded due to chronic smoking. However, there have also been cases wherein smoking is seen as a remedy or even cure for several ...

The history of Asian Americans can be understood in various perspectives. There is a claim in the US that the Asian American students are so many in learning institutions. The enrollment of Asian American students has been on the rise and this is what has caused the notion. Such notions are over-exaggerated. It narrows down to one perspective of higher education. It is also not clear whether these claims include the students from Asia or it is only referring to students of Asian origin but are Americans by citizenship. We aim at getting to the root statistics of the issue ...

- The information provided in the Statistical Abstracts of the United States Census Bureau demonstrates a peculiar variation in the levels of students. This is based on the diverse ethnic lines that exist in this country. From the data given the section of high school level graduates amongst blacks and whites presents a situation which has developed over time. For instance, in the earlier years of 1970, the disparity between white high school graduates and the black graduates was so high. In this period, white’s graduates from high school were 54.5 whereas the black’s counterparts were only 31.4. This ...

Women would often see pregnancy as their life’s goal, especially if one meets the person they intend to be and marry. For others, they see pregnancy as a way to begin a new life and family. Nowadays, there are also teenagers who become pregnant due to casual or unprotected sex who would continue their pregnancies even if they have classes to attend. There have also been instances wherein older women entering schools become pregnant and still opted to continue. While some opted to drop out of their schools to wait for their pregnancy, there are a few who braved and continued, ...

Introduction

Post-secondary education can also be referred to as higher, tertiary or third level education. It’s an advanced stage of learning that takes place at colleges, universities, seminars and technology institutes. It also includes certain institutions which provide colligate level education such as vocational institutions, career colleges, community college, independent colleges, which provide professional certification courses or academic degrees in affiliation with higher level institutes (Steckley and Kirby Letts, 2007). The social activities by the colleges and universities, teaching, research, acquiring precision in applied work (as in medical and dental schools) also falls in the realm of higher ...

There are several determinant factors that lead to distinguish educational attainment among individuals belonging to different ethnicity or racial groups. It is important to understand that the relationship between educational attainment and ethnicity is quite strong and there are noticeable differences in high school and college performances based upon one’s ethnicity. It was previously known that ethnic minority students perform poorly but statistics show that some of them are able to out-perform white students who have clear ethnic advantage over them. It is wrong to categorize and say that difference in level of educational attainment is solely dependent upon ...