national effort to improve the academic performance of American high school
Imagine that you are part of a national effort to improve the academic performance of
American high school students, and it is your job to provide specific suggestions for how
to improve student's academic performance. Using what you've learned about
adolescence and schooling in Chapter 10, write a report in which you provide 2 specific
suggestions for how to improve academic performance. For each suggestion, be sure to
include the following information:
(a) Describe the suggestion itself and how you could implement it/carry it out
(b) Cite a concept, research study, or idea from the textbook that provides evidence that
your suggestion will be effective (it is very important that you base your suggestion on
evidence from the chapter). Include the page # of where you found your evidence in
parentheses.
(c) Discuss how/why this piece of evidence from part (b) shows that your suggestion will
work.
Then, don't forget to comment of the reports of 2 other students. In your comments you
may offer constructive critiques of their suggestions, or discuss why you think they
might work.
Formatting Your Assignment: To make your posts easy to read, label your responses to
(a),(b), & (c) above as 1a), 1b), and 1c) for your 1st suggestion, and 2a), 2b), and 2c)
for your second suggestion.
