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There are 3 parts in this essay:
1. pick one article out of 7 and explain why you choose this article (100-150 words)2. Abstract
The purpose of an abstract is to convey what you see as the main argument of the article itself. Identifying the main argument is crucial because it will tell you what you need to include and what you can left out because it is not as important. Note that there can be disagreement on what is the main argument.
Format: 250 wordsAudience:
An abstract is reader-based writing, i.e., it needs to meet the expectations of your audience for a familiar structure (introduction, middle, conclusion), understandable ideas and terminology (no technical jargon), correct grammar, spelling, etc.
Your audience is the general public. Assume your audience has some education and background in current affairs and understands basic economic concepts, but is not knowledgeable about the details of economic theory or policy. In other words, you’ll need to explain any economic concepts you address in a way that keeps their interest and respects their intelligence. Your audience is not the professor or the TAs. You need to write more like a journalist than an academic.3. Reading Response
The reading response should be is a short (250 words) essay which conveys your reaction to the article. Ordinarily, a reading response contains a brief summary of the article; however, since you already wrote the abstract, you do not have to write a summary again — just add your reading response at the end of your abstract.For the reading response:
1.Pick one (and only one) specific thesis in the article that you bring up for closer examination
2. Elaborate that issue by arguing either for, or against, the thesis. To this end, you first will need to identify an explicit thesis stated in the article, and next, give reasons for or against it.A thesis is a single claim, answering a question on which there is some controversy. If you argue in favour of the thesis, then you have to give good reasons for accepting the thesis, and these reasons should not be those found in the reading: they have to be different reasons that you get from some other source. If instead you want to argue against the thesis, then you have to state and defend an alternative thesis.
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Answer
Article: Private education can complement the public
Rationale for Selecting the Article
The primary reason for selecting Howdy Partner’s article “Private education can complement the public sort” is its relevance in contemporary settings. Fundamentally, education is a vital practice in all societies all over the world. Therefore, parents aim at getting quality education for their children. In this regard, many appear to be opting for private schooling rather than public. Ideally, this is should be celebrated however, it seems to elicit animosity with the government. As such, this article offers essential information on why there is always a push and pull relationship between the public and the private sectors in education. Moreover, it explains why parents are opting to spent more in order to get their children to private schools.
Abstract
Parents all over the world favour private education as compared to public schooling. The main reason for this is the perceived “high quality” learning in private institutions. Primarily, many parents spent a lot more to get their children to the nearest private school neglecting the public educational facilities within their neighbourhood (Howdy, 2019). The change is represented in survey exercises in South Africa and Chile which showed that over 60% of parents prefer private schools for their kids based on the quality offered. Despite this positives associated with private education, governments all over the world are not keen on supporting private education for various reasons including inability to influence teachers’ unions and lack of the desire to cede power.
Statistics on educational qualification support the view that private education is of high quality. Ideally, private education dominate leading universities all over the world. However, some of the measures used only evaluate the depth of research in these universities. Therefore, quality is difficult to evaluate as some deliverables such as earnings are influenced by interest and background. However, another pushing factor that is leading to increased appreciation of private education as seen from British and American universities is the qualification rate of blacks. Ideally, most minority learners post high performances in private learning institutions as compared to the public ones thereby eliciting the view that private schooling exposes them to resources with allow them to compete with others equitably unlike in public institution. Therefore, the underlying feeling is that the high pay check for private schooling is justified.
Response
The main view of the article is that the government should look at private schooling positively and see it as complementing public education. Ideally, the goal of education in most nations is to make it quality, equitable, and accessible to all. In this regard, government facilities meet the equity and access deliverables (Woodley, 2016). However, based on the parent’s perception, the quality of teaching in public schools is low. On the other hand, private schools offer quality education that is expensive meaning that not everyone can afford. Similarly, there are few private schools, which means that most of them are away from the parents who would wish to enrol their children (Moschetti & Verger, 2020). As a result, private education is not easily accessible. Therefore, it is only by merging public and private schooling to complement each other that the government can be sure of achieving all the goals of education which is making it quality, accessible, and equitable.
The growth of private education is also helping magnify it is weaknesses. Ideally, to help complement education in places that the government is unable to accomplish is desirable. However, the high expenses involved coupled with inaccessibility leads to discrimination. In this regard, only individuals with sufficient finances can afford it. As such, it restricts education to individuals occupying high social classes. If viewed from this perspective of discriminating some sections of the society, the limited support by the government appears justified. However, there is no denying that private education will continue growing or expanding. As such, it is vital that solutions to its drawbacks are eliminated. Alternatively, the government can seek to counter the increasing popularity of private schooling by improving public education to meet all learning needs and goals.
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Howdy, p. (2019).Private education can complement the public sort. The Economist: Special Report. Moschetti, M. C., & Verger, A. (2020). Opting for private education: Public subsidy programs and school choice in disadvantaged contexts. Educational Policy, 34(1), 65-90. Woodley, S. (2016). ‘Oh Miserable and Most Ruinous Measure’: The debate between private and public education in Britain, 1760–1800. In Educating the Child in Enlightenment Britain (pp. 31-50). Routledge.
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