Issues and Concerns on the Educational System in America

Danielle Cedillo
80612811

RWS 1301
Professor Vierra
10/27/17
 Concerns on educational issues in America have many affairs, but studies and reforms,

have been implemented by the years in the hope of improving such an important system of in

American society. Many challenges and problems arise in the U.S and studies are taken place.

Analysing such issues, allow people to expand on research and implement new practices.

Banks, James A., and Cherry A. Mcgee. 2009, John Wiley & SonsMulticultural education

issues and perspectives 2009

According to the author, culture is conceptualized as a dynamic and complex process of

construction. Multicultural education is an idea, and plays an important goal that changes the

structure. These issues are associated in multicultural education, they describe diverse meanings

of culture. In order to transform schools, educates must have knowledge about influence of

particular groups on certain behaviors studied in students which gives them an overall consensus.

The characteristics are invisible and implicit when they are emphasized. Rhetoric is introduced in

the article because the author is trying to pertain a persuasive writing style in order to influence

their audience. The credibility the author holds is the knowledge on multicultural education, and

the studies that he has taken on. The intended audience varies, but one can infer that people

researching and studying multicultural education facts in the U.S, would greatly benefit from this

information.

Li, Chi-Sing, and Beverly Irby. "An overview of online education: Attractiveness, benefits,

challenges, concerns and recommendations." An overview of online education:

Attractiveness, benefits, challenges, concerns and recommendations., 2008.

An overview of online education is a general summary of what author Chi-Sing and Irby Beverly

think in regards to effectiveness. The authors break down the appeal and overall usefulness of

online education, opposed to traditional classroom like style. This type of teaching also comes

with its own challenges and concerns. The authors also give recommendations of how teachers

should go about employing such strategies. The credibility of the authors knowledge and

experiences on online education is the ethos of the topic. The intended audience is teachers and

students looking to research the effectiveness of online education and if they should adapt to

technology. The article is a breakdown of how modern ways of educating through online

processes are more effective than traditional teaching. The overview of online education offers

an alternative solution to some of the issues revolving around current educational strategies that

are in place.

Orfield, Gary. Dropouts in America: Confronting the Graduation Rate Crisis. 2004.

Gary Orfield wrote an article explaining the dropout rates in America. This Article informs the

reader of facts relating to dropouts in education. The author gains credibility by using specific

examples and statistics to back up his claims. The author appeals to both ethos and logos in his
writing. The reader can infer from the article, the negative effects and statistics of how many

people drop out yearly from the U.S. The way their life ends up without education, suffers

unfortunately as well. The intended audience of this article is people that are wondering how

many people drop out of the education. Especially people that are looking to help with the issue.

By analysing the data and facts of the dropout educational crisis, somebody can come up with a

solution. These rates and statistics can aid American public educators to aim for the success of

the student.

Rideout, Elizabeth. Transforming nursing education through problem-based learning. Jones

& Bartlett Learning, 2001.

Transforming nursing education through problem-based learning is written by Elizabeth Rideout

and published in the Jones Bartlett Learning is a breakdown of how successful and practical is

this new form of teaching towards education of nursing. Elizabeth Rideout explains what the

approach is in this style of writing, as well as compare and contrast this form of teaching to

others. Elizabeth uses logos to show the success rate of problem-based education opposed to

traditional education as means to success towards nursing majors. The intended audience is

teachers and student looking for information on improving teaching and learning. This article is

similar to my other sources because it is an alternative style of teaching that can help challenges

of education that are currently in place. Problem-based learning is a solution for some of the

problems that nursing education teachers and students run into.

Spitzer, Ada, and Beatrice Perrenoud. "Reforms in nursing education across Western

Europe: implementation processes and current status." Journal of Professional Nursing,

2006.

Reforms and Nursing education across Western Europe is a journal written by Ada Spitzer and

Beatrice Perrenoud. The journal is part of the Professional Nursing literature of the year 2006. It

is a analysis of the reforms that took place in Western Europe and the similarities of such

practices and those taken place back in America. The authors have studied the reforms of

Western Europe education for the last three decades and came up with conclusions. The intended

audience is mostly aimed towards researchers looking for facts and statistics of this specific

topic. The information and knowledge in the reforms of education of Western Europe, set the

path for educational strategies that were later employed in the United States. Having analysed

and examined the information in this article, a person can create a solution with the issues and

concerns with Nursing education in America.

Swales, John . "The concept of discourse community." Genre analysis: English in academic

and research settings, 1990.

John Swales, is a professor of linguistics and is co-director, at the University of Michigan.

This excerpt is from a book he wrote called Genre Analysis. The thesis includes, discourse

community having the assumption that discourse operates within conventions, also used to
cluster the ideas, and that discourse is epistemic or constitutive of groups knowledge. Some

issues, he addressed, was the idea of discourse community, is not defined yet, but like other

terms, it is suggestive to the center of a set of ideas rather than a settled notion. Social view,

has concerns raising many questions as well. Another issue addressed, is that definitions

emphasize the reciprocity of discourse and community suffer the fate of ending up circular.

Also, included, is literacy taking away locality and parochiality, for members to

communicate in distant places.

Will, Madeleine C. "Educating children with learning problems: A shared responsibility."

1986.

Beliefs on educating children with learning problems is that children with certain

disabilities need special attention. There are ways to help make it easier for them. They also

need patience when dealt with. I know there are certain programs specialized in this

department. They may need certain vocabulary or terminology when teaching a topic.This

paper includes the author's argument by including pathos, ethos, and logos. Author points

out the different issues claimed by the teacher's and how effective they are showing the

increase in success.Author uses logos, in her argument by using evidence and factual

statements to support their claim. Pathos gives emotional opinions and shapes different

ideas, as to how we can view different points.

The rhetorical analysis consists of understanding the difference between ethos, pathos

logos. Ethos primarily deals with the credibility and data associated with it. Pathos deals

with the emotion that is felt or thought of when reading a paper. Logos is concerned with

the logic of the writer's argument and the factual statements.

Four Research Questions

How does the dropout rate in El Paso compare to other schools in the United States?

Why do certain majors have a higher dropout rate than others?

How does Texas Tech dropout rate compare to Uteps dropout rate?

What if there was a zero percentage drop out rate at Utep?