HomeWork 41: Internet Reasearch On School

How does the neighborhood of where students live and go to school affects how kids do in school?


npr.org, August 16, 2007. Even though they said that poor kids maybe get affected by the neighborhood they live in, but it is more about what they and their parents think about school than what the neighborhood the student live in and where their school is located. They also talked about the travel time from home to school and they is a factor. The factors might not be the neighborhood but the connection might be between the types of opportunities between the different schools and where the family lives.

Do extra curricular activities affect how students learn?

according to (http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rhetoric/105H17/rhollrah/cof.html) these extra curricular activities help students grades, by making them more "active" but now since high school are loosing funding there is a low budget on the number of activities a school can fund. They also say that these activities gives the students pride and accomplishment, so they will continue to do them and work hard.

(http://www.elearning06.com/?p=83) states that these extra activities strengthen students and help them fortify the basics more, but the activities to not teach any more than regular classes. this is also suggesting that students should attend more activities, since it "shouldn't" affect out grades and physical heath.

(http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=1294) is arguing not only these activities do what the other two sources said but these activities give a student better attitude toward learning according to a study. Not only saying that students will have time to relax from school but also "recommending" what students should learn what.

(http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/1/0/3/7/2/p103727_index.html) is talking about how students don't get a break from their school work but if they don't it will improve their grades if they study more about it outside of school.

(http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/1/0/3/7/2/p103727_index.html) is supporting scholastic and stating that students who spend their time outside of class doing leisure activities (watching TV, sports, talking on phone) have a negative affect on students, but students whom do school related activities (government, mathematics, etc) have a positive affect on students.

By looking at these different points of view, it is not really sure but many people say that students learning process will sometimes be affected by the extra curricular activities they do outside of school. This is affected by how they spend their time and what they think about school. If a student spends a lot of time outside of school doing leisure activities than doing homework or studying of course it would most likely affect how a student learns, against a student who spends their extra curricular activities studying with a teacher or a tutor.