Dont Lower The Bar Analysis

One of the first steps that I had taken when I approached this weeks assignment was to determine how the article had fit into my research topic. While it was difficult as I remained intent on finding the articles that dealt with Transnational Criminal Organizations and Terror groups, the search was made a bit easier with the APUS library. After I had located the articles I believed I was going to be using one of the next steps was to determine the articles content, I had questioned the content as well as what the author was trying to convey. As was described in the lesson this week as well as seeing the example given, I made an outline as well as placed them in my own words. What my criteria was in order to determine what was appropriate was, the keyword as well as content.

Buehler, J. W. (2017). Racial/ethnic disparities in the use of lethal force by US police, 2010-2014. American Journal of Public Health, 107 (2), 295-297. In Buehler’s article, he attempts to disprove a study that found no racial disparities in killings that law enforcement were responsible for.

The reactions to his book initiated a calling for social reforms across the country. However, this book was also one of the first to display ethnographic and psychological details that included: examining different behaviors of different groups of people and talking about individuality and self-esteem.6 When reflecting on the writing of the book, Riis said: “My aim was to arouse the conscience and excite sympathy. In a crowd of a hundred the one who limps excites attention and sympathy––those who go on sound legs go unnoticed. Therefore I ‘limped’ purposely, I was presenting wrongs to be redressed,”.7 With his work, Riis captured the attention and sympathy of people across the nation and henceforth helped initiate the Progressive Movement. He managed to bring about large-scale awareness of an issue he believe could no longer wait: the necessity for social reforms.

Throughout America, a multitude of newspapers and authors write about and discuss the various topics that interest people today. Ranging from sports to political editorials and news coverage, each writer carries their own personal style for how they convey their message to their audience. Leonard Pitts, a writer for the Miami Herald, was born in California and currently writes editorials on recent topics. An African-American left-winger, Pitts forms his writing with colloquial language in his editorials such as: “Challenged by The Hope of my Elders,” “Torture Might Work, but That’s not The Issue,” and “Don’t Lower The Bar on Education Standards.” In “Challenged by The Hope of My Elders,” Pitts writes about the black lives matter campaign and

In this excerpt from the 2005 nonfiction work, Shame of the Nation, Jonathan Kozol calls out the extreme disparity in regards to standardized testing between white and minority children(which in turn affects dropout rates and affirmative action effectiveness), and elucidates how government-issued standards are not effectively combating the educational conditions in minority-heavy public schools. By utilizing his considerable experience in educational fields, Kozol’s writing appeals dominantly to ethos, in which he carries out by judging educational conditions according to his own life experience and standards. Kozol also subordinately appeals to pathos, through personal anecdotal evidence. To solidify his claims, Kozol also uses extensive data

For example, "we are not moving nearly fast enough to reduce incarceration. Over 2 million Americans live caged behind bars, a 550 percent increase in the last 40 years." Thus, this shows that due to us still following the old system to many people are in jail for crimes that don’t deserve that crime. Another example is shown in article 2, line 2 "One in 35 American adults is under

In addition, the Government Accountability Office [GAO] (2016) reported: “from school years 2000-2001 to 2013-2014, the percentage of all K-12 public schools that had high percentages of poor and black or Hispanic students grew from 9 to 16 percent” (p. 2). These findings suggest that practices of racially and economically segregating students of color continue unresolved. Sadly, poverty and race are automatic disqualifiers for children of color to have equal access to quality

Everyone wants the truth and with Leonard Pitts Jr. you get it. Pitts writes for the Miami Herald daily newspaper in southern Florida. His style is very unique in all of his writings, and different from other authors. Pitts mostly focuses on the outbreak of the daily news. For instance, Don’t Lower The Bar on Education Standards is strictly states lowering the bar will not fix anything it will only decrease the standards.

As a piece of the unequal education area this is a perfect representation of blacks channeled thought the pipeline and not being able to gain their freedom and liberty from their wrongdoings. People send their children to school to learn and to improve themselves and also their communities. However, the desks that these students sit in are now counted by the state prison to determine what percentage will make up their inmates. There are various factories centriole to inequities in the black education field, for instance unequal punishment, more stagnation with the juvenile justice system, and other circumstances create the ideal circumstance that leaves blacks without the same educational opportunities as whites. In the US News

Carnoy, Loeb, and Smith (2003) found a weakness in the relationships between TAKS scores and other outcomes such as high school graduation rates and scores on college entrance exams. Other researchers (Klein, Hamilton, McCaffrey, & Steecher, 2000) analyzed increases in scores in Texas on the NAEP, increases that they state political leaders attributed to the accountability system, and found that Texas score improvements in mathematics at grade 8 are not significantly different from those of other states that did not have strong accountability systems in place. In fact their data show evidence that the achievement gap between white students and underrepresented minorities actually increased. Some argue that the data show that the accountability program actually negatively impacts schools that were already academically behind before the implementation of the accountability system (Fassold,

Despite an increase of education scores in the past decade, the United States still trenches behind many countries. Scores found in the Programme for International Student Assessment, the most popular cross sectional test, finds that the United State ranks thirty-eight out of seventy-one countries in test performances of english, math and science literary. But within the country itself contains a deeper issue. The term “achievement gap” is used to describe the polarity between the academic performances of minorities, such as Black and Hispanics, to those of Asians and White students; which are found to be much lower than the latter. Besides test scores, this achievement gap is most apparent in grades and drop-out rates as well.

Arguments come in various of forms from verbal to writing to even using the silent treatment. During English class, we have examined many passages all with strong arguments and the author Eula Biss falls under that category. Throughout the passage, “Is This Kansas” by Biss, her argument is shown through imagery. Biss starts off her article by explaining what a typical night looks like at the University of Iowa. She explains, “The chanting on sorority lawns, the parades, the groups in matching T-shits that read ‘Pharmacy Bar Crawl ‘06’ or ‘Ted’s Birthday!’

According to “From the achievement Gap to the Education Debt: Understanding Achievement in U.S. Schools” claims

Only 75 percent of blacks have received post-high school education, compared to 85 percent of whites. Not surprisingly, blacks on average also make less money than whites” (Philip M. Deutsch). It’s unjust that people of color are treated as inferior to white people, and it is that kind of social issue that interferes with the liberties of all Americans of

I then discovered I found it hard to determine the author’s intended audience and purpose. This was made apparent to me in the grader’s remarks of brief assignment four. One of these key critiques was, “The audiences (and purposes) you have discussed above for each of the articles are too vague.” After I was made aware of my rhetorical shortcomings I reread every