AUHSD Research Paper

The academic success in the Anaheim Union High School District or AUHSD for short needs to increase. Many students see success as something impossible to reach, but that is not true. Success can be difficult to reach, but not impossible. In order to reach success students must be focused, determined, and have opportunities provided. The only thing that can prevent someone from reaching their goals is themselves. Evey individual student has the ability of doing good in school by getting good grades, passing all tests, graduating, and then going to college. The AUHSD has many great schools, full of teachers dedicated to helping their students. So how can a student be academically successful? For a student to be academically successful they must
If they want to be successful they must be willing to sacrifice themselves and focus more in school. They must be determined to spend more time in a school campus. Students will have less time to waste at home. Adding more time into the school day will mean teachers will be able to teach for a bit longer. It has been proven that by making the school day longer the test score of students increase. For instance there are many schools who offer a longer day for students, such as Knowledge Is Power Program better known as KIPP and The Expanding Learning TIme Initiative. These two programs have increased the academic success of their students. In the research paper “Matitas Bargain” written by Malcolm Gladwell, the author uses an anecdotal story to convince us that KIPP academy should be taken into consideration when wanting to increase the academic success of other schools. The students who attend KIPP academy are not rich kids actually they are the opposite, they are students who live in poor neighborhood and who qualify for free and reduced lunch because their parents can not afford to provide food for them. Students who attend KIPP attend school for a longer period of time with the objective of going to college. Studies have shown that students who go to KIPP have higher reading scores and do better in math and science. “In return, KIPP promises that it will take kids like her who are stuck in poverty and give them a chance to get out. It will get 84 percent of them up to or above their grade level in mathematics. On the strength of that performance, 90 percent of KIPP students get scholarships to private or parochial high schools instead of having to attend their own desultory high schools in the Bronx. And on the strength of that high school experience, more than 80 percent of KIPP graduates will go on to college, in many cases being the first in their family to do so. . . . “ (Gladwell). The students who attend