Unit 2 - Kenton County Schools

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Activity 2.10continuedHow to Write an EditorialIssue: Raising Graduation RequirementsShould academic graduation requirements be raised for high schoolstudents in your district? Complete the following chart after you haveread and analyzed the two editorials that address this question.Writer Reasons For Reasons AgainstStrongest Statementof PositionJack O’ConnellNick ThomasYou© 2011 College Board. All rights reserved.A Person You Know146 SpringBoard® English Textual Power Level 6
E d i t o r i a lTime to raise the barin high schoolsby Jack O’ConnellMy NotesActivity 2.10continued© 2011 College Board. All rights reserved.The most important challenge we face in public education today isto improve high schools so that all California students graduate preparedto succeed in either college or the workplace. Today, far too many of our1.7 million high school students are prepared for neither the demandsof skilled employment nor the rigors of higher education. Employersconsistently complain of graduates who lack critical problem-solving andcommunications skills. More than half of students entering California StateUniversity need remediation in reading or math. It is clearly time for us tore-examine high school in California, to raise the level of rigor we expect ofall of our students and begin preparing every high school student to reachhigher expectations.How we meet the challenge of improving high school studentachievement will determine the futures of our children and their abilityto compete and succeed in the decades to come. Moreover, how we respondto this challenge will significantly affect the economic and social future ofour state.Research shows that students who take challenging, college-preparatorycourses do better in school, even if they started out with poor test scores andlow expectations. Students who take rigorous courses are also less likely todrop out, and they perform better in vocational and technical courses.Our high schools today struggle with an achievement gap that leavesAfrican-American, Latino and socioeconomically disadvantaged studentslagging behind their peers. A failure to provide and expect all students to takedemanding academic coursework has also created a high school “reality gap:”While more than 80 percent of high school students say they intend to go tocollege, only about 40 percent actually take the rigorous coursework requiredfor acceptance at a four-year university. The numbers are even lower forAfrican-American graduates (24 percent) and Latinos (22 percent).Many students are not aware that the “minimum requirement” coursesthey are taking aren’t providing the rigorous foundation that will preparethem to fulfill their dreams after high school. In some cases, students aresteered away from tough courses or find them overenrolled. The result isthousands of students who must spend significant, unnecessary time andmoney after high school if they are ever to fulfill their dreams.To reverse this trend, we must make rigorous courses available to all ofour students. We must redefine high schools as institutions that provide allstudents with a strong academic foundation, whether they are bound forcollege or the workplace after graduation.&Grammar UsageDiction plays an importantrole in establishing thetone and the credibilityof a writer. Notice thatO’Connell uses a formaland educated diction,which reflects andenhances his position asthe school superintendent.He chooses words suchas remediation insteadof help, rigorous insteadof difficult, overenrolledinstead of full.<strong>Unit</strong> 2 • American Forums: The Marketplace of Ideas 147
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