Reducing Tuition Costs: Description of Terms
The essay has indirectly used the following terms namely rebuttal, backing, support, warrant, claim, and qualifier. The description of these terms follows in the below essay.
Support/backing
To begin with, Bittermann (669) notes that the Department of Education in the United States should recognize and support the youth due to the civic duty that they undertake on a daily basis. According to the author, young people who cannot afford university education can be supported by allocating adequate funds to public schools.
Rebuttal
On the other hand, disenfranchising tens of thousands of youths in the United States in terms of education leads to a rebuttal of their basic rights as American citizens. Education rebuttal leads to poor education of the youths and lack of enlightenment among them. The author observes that utilizing the funds obtained from an incentive-based program will be the best option for funding higher education among many youths. This step of action will avert any chances of educational rebuttal.
Warrant
It is a warranty that young people will no longer miss education due to the high cost of learning. It is possible to achieve the latter by promoting the community service incentive in the United States. This initiative will also guarantee active civic participation because the youths will be engaging themselves in serving the community and funding their own educational needs.
Qualifier
The program will also lead to the attainment of higher qualification standards among the American youths because they will no longer be educationally disenfranchised. The most dedicated and brightest learners will also be extracted from the American population. As a matter of fact, there are so many American youths who qualify with a GPA of 2.85 after completing their primary education. However, they do not enroll in secondary education due to the costs involved. Therefore, the community service initiative will act as their qualifier towards attaining better standards of education in society. The government should also give top priority to better standards of education at all elementary levels.
Claims
The author claims that sitting for an ACT or SAT examination costs $44.50. Moreover, the country produced 1,485,242 graduates with degrees in bachelor in 2006 (Bittermann 670). The latter figure is still low compared to the number of students who complete primary school each year. The transfer rate from elementary to higher learning institutions is still not convincing. Another claim is that out of every 17 adolescents among families that obtain about thirty-five thousand US dollars per year, only one child is likely to graduate from an institution of higher learning (college or university). This implies that there are several families with low-income levels who often fail to support their children up to college or university levels. In addition, families that accrue over eighty-five thousand US dollars are quite capable of educating their children successfully until they graduate from colleges and universities. From the essay, the author notes that out of every two students from such families, one child often graduates from college or university level. From the above claims, it is evident that the cost of higher education in the United States is still higher and beyond the reach of a certain segment of society. Therefore, the Department of Education may reduce these worrying statistics by adopting the community service incentive among youths who cannot afford the cost of higher education.
Works Cited
Bittermann, Charlie. “Reducing Tuition Costs, Civically.” Policy Studies Journal 36.4 (2008): 669-670. Print.