Educational Pedagogy

In a changing culture of education and work, more students are questioning what it means to be successful, and what path to take to get there. With races to the top--the top of the class, of standardized test scores, of college acceptance letters--being laden with the pressure of finding a dream job and being academically successful, achievement has a grip on our academic culture like never before. Everything we promote in schools points to an exact definition of success, a ladder to be climbed in order to grasp the next tier of achievement that stands to define not just what we do, but who we are. Our identities are interwoven with our academic successes, with good grades and college names serving as ways of defining ourselves.