Kilereadingresponse4

While reading claiming an education, I agree that education should be claimed and not received. It takes a lot of effort and hard work to earn your education, and it isn't something that just gets handed down to an individual. Right now in high school many students don't put much, if any effort into their work to get the grades that they receive. However, Unfortunately some students do just get education handed down though. I have seen students who went all out on an assignment writing 5 paragraphs and one students writing 2 sentences and still earning the same grade. I don't believe that it is right that they just "receive" the grade due to the fact that they simply put a little effort into the activity. I believe that those who reach out and try their very best to succeed claim their education, not receive it. Those are the people that deserve it. While reading this, I also agreed and disagreed about some things that were said about women's roles at college. I do not feel as though there is sexism in any of my classes and I do not believe that our world is run by men. Yes, they feel as though they are so much stronger and better than females, but I do not think that this is right. Females are just as good as males and we are just as capable if we set our minds to it.

Group 3: While reading What Does it Mean to be Well-educated, the section about test scores under number 4, some poor definitions really caught my attention. I highly agree that most teachers can instantly name students who are talented thinkers but who don't do well on standardized tests as well as students whose scores seem to overestimate their intellectual gifts. I can agree with this simply because I unfortunately did not do as well as I had hoped on my SAT's. However, I have proudly always been on honor roll and took my grades very seriously. As my teachers were writing my recommendation letters for colleges, they had described my situation. I also noticed that some students who never took school seriously did better then I did! With this being said, I strongly agree that no single test is sufficiently valid, reliable, or meaningful that it can be treated as a marker for academic success.