I think The American is about forging your own life and try to achieve as much success as your heart desires. One of the ways you can achieve the American dream and also how most people can achieve success is through education. Today education is the foundation for a person’s way to success. But how is the education going on in America nowadays?
Education in America
In America it is possible to get free elementary school, and it is also possible to go to a private school which might provides higher quality of teaching. The really difficult thing in America is College. College is one of the decisive factors in the educational system. It is also there where you are deciding your career. College is very expensive in the US in contrast to the Scandinavian countries such as Sweden and Denmark where all education is free. The expense og College makes it difficult for many Americans to make their way to success. Many americans put them self in to a huge debt because of the expense of college. Because of the difficulties with education in America, there is a growing inequality which is actually the biggest threat to America nowadays.
What is the problem in America and why? The United States is devoting billions of dollars every year to compete with Russia militarily, but maybe we should try to compete educationally. Russia now has the largest percentage of adults with a university education of any industrialized country — a position once held by the United States, although we’re plunging in that roster.
A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility. But the American dream seems to have emigrated because many countries do better than the United States in educational mobility, according to the O.E.C.D. study.
A new Pew survey finds that Americans consider the greatest threat to our country to be the growing gap between the rich and poor. Yet we have constructed an education system, dependent on local property taxes, that provides great schools for the rich kids in the suburbs who need the least help, and broken, dangerous schools for inner-city children who desperately need a helping hand. Too often, America’s education system amplifies not opportunity but inequality.
The success story There is also an example of a person who was a war refugee from Ukraine but fled to France and then later to America. He went to America because he thought that his chance for achieving success in America was bigger. He achieved great success and so did his children. The article is then mentioning that if was in nowadays it would not be so sure for him to achieve success in America. Researchers find economic and educational mobility are now greater in Europe than in America.
America compared to other countries
The article is finally mentioning that back in 18th-century, most of the Europeans did not went to school, instead they had to help there family or working at factory. By the mid-1800s, most American states provided a free elementary education to the great majority of white children. In contrast, as late as 1870, only 2 percent of British 14-year-olds were in school. Then the United States was the first major country, in the 1930s, in which a majority of children attended high school. By contrast, as late as 1957, only 9 percent of 17-year-olds in Britain were in school.
In particular, we fail at early education. Across the O.E.C.D., an average of 70 percent of 3-year-olds are enrolled in education programs. In the United States, it’s 38 percent.
Analysis of the article: “The American Dream is leaving America”.
Title:
The Articles title is The American Dream is leaving America, I already think it catches the reader when you read the title. Because I think the title itself is really serious and that’s why I think it is catching
Appeals: The article is primarily using Logos. The article use a lot of facts statistics and research
Reliablity:
I think the article is reliable, because the publisher is The New York Times and they are one of the most influential newspapers in the US.
The article also has a lot of it sources from O.E.C.D, which is an international organisation, which purpose is to stimulate economic growth and free market economics between democratic countries. It is a huge organisation, which I think makes it reliable.
Message:
I think the article wants to criticise the modern America and peoples who believes in the American Dream. The writer is trying to tell us that America is maybe not that country where fortunes smiles upon everyone. Maybe the dream about that everybody can achieve success in America is maybe possible for few, but for most it will not be.
The article focuses a lot on education in America, which means that by criticizing the education he criticizes the educational system in America.
Another thing, I think the writer wants to tell is that the US is falling behind in comparison to other countries, both in education, economics and military.
Peter 1.A
I think The American is about forging your own life and try to achieve as much success as your heart desires. One of the ways you can achieve the American dream and also how most people can achieve success is through education. Today education is the foundation for a person’s way to success. But how is the education going on in America nowadays?
Education in America
In America it is possible to get free elementary school, and it is also possible to go to a private school which might provides higher quality of teaching. The really difficult thing in America is College. College is one of the decisive factors in the educational system. It is also there where you are deciding your career. College is very expensive in the US in contrast to the Scandinavian countries such as Sweden and Denmark where all education is free. The expense og College makes it difficult for many Americans to make their way to success. Many americans put them self in to a huge debt because of the expense of college. Because of the difficulties with education in America, there is a growing inequality which is actually the biggest threat to America nowadays.
What is the problem in America and why?
The United States is devoting billions of dollars every year to compete with Russia militarily, but maybe we should try to compete educationally. Russia now has the largest percentage of adults with a university education of any industrialized country — a position once held by the United States, although we’re plunging in that roster.
A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility. But the American dream seems to have emigrated because many countries do better than the United States in educational mobility, according to the O.E.C.D. study.
A new Pew survey finds that Americans consider the greatest threat to our country to be the growing gap between the rich and poor. Yet we have constructed an education system, dependent on local property taxes, that provides great schools for the rich kids in the suburbs who need the least help, and broken, dangerous schools for inner-city children who desperately need a helping hand. Too often, America’s education system amplifies not opportunity but inequality.
The success story
There is also an example of a person who was a war refugee from Ukraine but fled to France and then later to America. He went to America because he thought that his chance for achieving success in America was bigger. He achieved great success and so did his children. The article is then mentioning that if was in nowadays it would not be so sure for him to achieve success in America. Researchers find economic and educational mobility are now greater in Europe than in America.
America compared to other countries
The article is finally mentioning that back in 18th-century, most of the Europeans did not went to school, instead they had to help there family or working at factory.
By the mid-1800s, most American states provided a free elementary education to the great majority of white children. In contrast, as late as 1870, only 2 percent of British 14-year-olds were in school.
Then the United States was the first major country, in the 1930s, in which a majority of children attended high school. By contrast, as late as 1957, only 9 percent of 17-year-olds in Britain were in school.
In particular, we fail at early education. Across the O.E.C.D., an average of 70 percent of 3-year-olds are enrolled in education programs. In the United States, it’s 38 percent.
Analysis of the article:
“The American Dream is leaving America”.
Title:
The Articles title is The American Dream is leaving America, I already think it catches the reader when you read the title. Because I think the title itself is really serious and that’s why I think it is catching
Appeals:
The article is primarily using Logos. The article use a lot of facts statistics and research
Reliablity:
I think the article is reliable, because the publisher is The New York Times and they are one of the most influential newspapers in the US.
The article also has a lot of it sources from O.E.C.D, which is an international organisation, which purpose is to stimulate economic growth and free market economics between democratic countries. It is a huge organisation, which I think makes it reliable.
Message:
I think the article wants to criticise the modern America and peoples who believes in the American Dream. The writer is trying to tell us that America is maybe not that country where fortunes smiles upon everyone. Maybe the dream about that everybody can achieve success in America is maybe possible for few, but for most it will not be.
The article focuses a lot on education in America, which means that by criticizing the education he criticizes the educational system in America.
Another thing, I think the writer wants to tell is that the US is falling behind in comparison to other countries, both in education, economics and military.