Murray believes that some people should not even go to college. People, in a sense, get pressured by either family or friends to go to college. In turn, some of these people should not be in college wasting space of someone who could potentially have taken their spot. Murray sees the liberal arts education as simply learning the basics of the work force. He shows that if you have not learned the typical basics in high school, you should not be trying to go to
Dear Honorable Titian: I understand the House of Representatives of the United States has just passed a bill which would do away with federal grants to college students. I am currently enrolled in college and depend greatly on the grants I receive. These grants allow great opportunity, for not just me, but for many other students as well. Taking them away would cause problems in several areas. The passage of the “Pick the Public’s Pocket No More” bill would lower college application rates, lower college graduation rates, and lower our country’s number of new college graduates for open positions in the work force.
Although most people go to college to earn a degree, going to college is not necessarily the best choice for everyone. He says that if some students are not getting their money’s worth in college, they should go to vocational school to be better prepared rather than going to college that’s not worth it for them. Some people could argue that it is unnecessary to make everyone go to college, high school graduates will be better prepared by continuing their education to get theoretical and practical knowledge for their careers. I decided to be a freshman in college this year because I wanted to prepare myself for a good career in the future by learning knowledge in the specific field I want to be. I also like to learn, my second reason to continue my education.
The main argument against increasing the wages of these workers is that it will have a negative impact on the developing world because workers will lose their jobs. He refutes this argument by stating that companies, rather than anti-sweatshop protestors, make the decision to shift the locations of their factories. He concludes by appealing to college students to pressure universities to purchase products in factories that are respectful of workers’ rights. He provides information about student unions that support this cause. Although he states many arguments about working conditions he provides very little evidence to support these arguments.
Critical Analysis In the article We Send Too Many Students to College by Marty Nemko, Marty Nemko discusses how it is possible to be successful and not have gone to college. He continues in his argument by discussing other reasonable alternatives to college and gives examples of successful people that did not continue with their education. Although in good taste, Nemko is wrong to suggest that options such as apprenticeships and “short career-preparation programs at community colleges” are available to all those who cannot handle the college life, for many Americans there are only two options, the school house or the jail house. Nemko lists several influential persons in the country that have been successful without the aid of a formal college education. In this list he includes great politicians, entrepreneurs, and even some entertainers.
Failing has important disadvantages, such as being forced to take remedial classes until the test can be passed, The use and misuse of high- stakes tests are a controversial topic in public education, especially in the United States SAT’s SAT no longer stands for ‘Scholastic Aptitude Test’ which was the original name of the test. It was introduced in 1941. Although you may still see that name occasionally, the College Board, the not-for-profit educational association that sponsors the SATs, decided to let the acronym stand on its own as a way of addressing controversy about the meaning of the word "aptitude." The College Board also rejected the alternative "Scholastic Assessment Test." (This name was redundant, since assessment means test.)
Seems kind of pointless, most athletes don't go pro after college, so I why not get the full educational experience? Getting special treatment in school just because you’re an athlete is not fair. College is way to difficult for people to get special treatment just because of a person’s special talent. How about for students who are honor students? All their hard work doesn’t mean anything?
Goodman seems to believe it is the students and their parents, as Goodman states, “Perhaps the chief objectors to abolishing grading would be the students and their parents.”(p.213). I think parents main concern with abolishing grading would be the fact that they cannot see how their kids are doing in college. And I think a student’s main concern with it would be that they do not really know how they are going to be judged as far as knowledge of the subjects they are studying. Plus you have to take into consideration that they are the ones who are paying tuition (the reason the school runs in the first place). And in our society, testing has become the means for everything, even getting an entry level job.
These companies which profit off the impulses of the weak will no longer hold sway over our government like they do. James D. Scurlock wrote about the rising amount of influence the credit card companies hold in his article “Maxxed out”, “When it came time to testify, however, Trisha and Jane found themselves opposing the financial industry and its lobbyists, who were ‘discussing how much money they contributed to each congressman’s campaign’,” (Scurlock 154) For student loan debts we can bring back the near extinct concept of “Grants” which is where money is given, not lent, in order for students to achieve educational success. The money given from the government to the student pays for the student’s education so that when he is done with school, he goes out, gets a good job and makes society better in a little way. And when many make something just a little bit better, then the whole things starts to get noticeably better
He expresses about how the government concerns about the middle class going into university in greater numbers rather than the working class, the politicians believe there is some unfairness in this situation therefore they have started to stop inflowing cash to those universities that fail to take on lower class applicants. He believes that this is a damaging policy occurring because he thinks politicians fail to recognise that there is difference in intelligence between class for example intelligent parents produce intelligent children. He assumes that’s middle class people he’s been associated with have been middle class and are intelligent. However there are some critics of innate intelligence in this circumstance intelligence is fixed, the critique for this would be IQ tests cannot tell us how much potential a person has. People with low IQ can go on to succeed great things in life.