Proposal/Policy arguments are most often a call for action or used to introduce an audience to see an issue in a new light. I need to write an essay that includes all the requirements below.
*The Essay will discuss some of the claims the authors note regarding the deterioration of education in America. With the addition of opinion, either for or against. (argument) In these sources, there are a lot of opinions, examples, and viewpoints that need to be known and discussed in this Essay.
* Page Requirement: 1400 – 1800 words (about 6 to 7 pages)
*The Essay will propose an action to solve or improve what you see as a struggle within America. (Your proposal to change an issue you see as a problem). Will the decline in education affect the US economy?
* sources // Use the attached 5 resources to write the Essay.
* Please include these quotes from the sources below, adding some other quotes and discussing them in-depth ((Depth of Analysis)
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Introduction:
Format Ideas for Outline:
Introduce and develop the problem:
• Hook: Engage the readers’ interest in your proposal/problem
• Introduce the issue, the history of it, current status of it, etc.
provide background, including previous attempt to solve the problems Presence:
• Who is affected and what is at stake
• Discuss the problem(s)you will present /or discuss why there is no problem.
Body Paragraphs:
• Topic Sentence (on of your claim that supports the thesis)
• Talk about the claim a bit
• Introduce (MLA format) and present quote from one of your sources
• Discuss how and why and what makes this quote support what you say in the
topic sentence and thesis
• Transition to next source (relationship between sources handout)
• Introduce (MLA format) and present quote from one of your sources
• Discuss how and why and what makes this quote support the first source, what
you say in the topic sentence, and the thesis
• Transition to more sources for this topic in a new paragraph or transition to a
new topic
Respond to Objections or alternative proposals: (this can appear anywhere in your paper (avoid using it as your last claim)
• Anticipate and summarize possible objections or alternative ways to solve the problem
• Respond through rebuttal or concession
Conclusion:
• Remind the audience about the issue
• Remind the audience why this issue matters
• Remind them what happens if we don’t make changes or change the way we think
• Call to action
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Quotes: –
“A new power has emerged on the world stage to challenge American supremacy—China—with a weapon the Soviet Union never possessed: mutually assured economic destruction.”
“Many conservatives believe that American public education is in poor shape today because of cultural and social trends, most beginning in the 1960s, which destroyed classroom discipline, the moral basis for education, and a national consensus on what students should learn.”
“The rhetoric of school reform often ignores the crucial role of individual decisions (by students, by parents, by business owners, by educators) in determining educational outcomes.”
“Public schools are excoriated as retirement parks for lazy unionized teachers to indulge their habit of force-feeding the innocent on Marxist propaganda.”
“American primary and secondary education costs far more than it should and fails a significant part of the population who are disadvantaged through no fault of their own.”
“Not just ready to go ready to succeed, we need to make sure that the quantitative things the skills set that we can, and measure are reflected in the education the students get.”
“I think our national is stirred up a little bit when we see that maybe were 19th and maybe 23rd and maybe we’re not first. ”
“Many schools in the United States have ceased issuing grades that have any meaning, or they have dropped grading altogether, which means there is no way to judge progress or achievement.”
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Sources: –
Doctors, Silver “Decline of The West: American Education Surrenders Language, Math and Science To ‘Equity’”
https://www.silverdoctors.com/headlines/world-news/decline-of-the-west-american-education-surrenders-language-math-and-science-to-equity/
Grier, Mark “on American Public Education Reform” Youtube
Mark Grier on American Public Education Reform. – YouTube
Hood, John “The Failure of American Public Education”
https://fee.org/articles/the-failure-of-american-public-education/
McLaren, Niall Truthout “Dumbing Down America: The Decline of Education in the US as Seen from Down Under” Truthout
https://truthout.org/articles/dumbing-down-america-the-decline-of-education-in-the-us-as-seen-from-down-under/
McTague,Tom“TheAtlantic” ”THE DECLINE OF THE AMERICAN WORLD”
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/06/america-image-power- trump/613228/