The purpose of this assignment is to continue developing your ability to create conceptual arguments using the elements of academic argumentation that we’ve been studying this term. Thematically, using our texts, we are also beginning to analyze some potential effects that American public K-I2 schooling may be currently having on contemporary American society.
Answer the question, in what ways may the education system that Diane Ravitch describes in her book nels) athsts11,4koui • he Great American School System have helped to create the attitude toward work and intelligence that Matthew Crawford, in his book Shop Class as Soulcraft, describes as characteristic of society today? Where do you see what Ravitch is claiming is true about education reflected in what Crawford is claiming is true about the way people today view work and intelligence?
• Though you will be creating a relationship between these texts, that relationship isn’t one of compare and contrast; instead, you’ll be looking for evidence from one text that may help to explain situations in the other. • This is not a paper in which we will be critiquing education or society; we will also not be attempting to repair either education as described by Ravitch or the current attitudes toward work and intelligence as described by Crawford.
Include,
-A paragraph for ‘common ground’: talking about both books and establishing a background. which should not be in the introduction paragraph
-A de-stabilizing momeant,
-A paragraph for answer to question: ”In what ways may the education system that Diane Ravitch describes in her book ‘The Death and Life of the Great American School System have helped to create the attitude toward work and intelligence that Matthew Crawford, in his book ‘Shop Class as Soulcraft’, described as characteristic of society today?”
Conclusion.
Be sure to use quotations through out the paper, at least 3-4 per paragraph using both books. Please make sure that you’r answering the questions in review question which is attached.