rhetorical strategies

Thesis: Evan as the number of charter schools continues to grow, and President Obama vows support for the charter school movement, the ultimate benefits of the charter system remain a subject of debate.

Organization: This paper was broken down into the sections. The Rise of Charter Schools in America, The Case for Charter Schools, and Criticism of the Charter School System.

1.       Rise of Charter Schools in America beaks down what the charter school program is about by describing teaching freedon, the fact that they can be shut down, and talks about the first charter school in 1992 and the rising number of 5,600 in 2011.

2.       The Case of a Charter schools talks about why teachers enjoy working there and their struggles. It talks about some of the reasons a charter might close and some of the most powerful charter schools programs.

3.       Criticism of the Charter School System speaks on why critics believe that charter programs are hurting the public schools education. They believe they take well preforming student from traditional schools, take the best teachers and that through data believe that they aren’t preforming better.

Research: The source shows its credibility by talking about and taking stats from different educational sources. They mention the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS), they talk about the different charter programs like The Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) and lastly they mention the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO). The article itself is a exert Cengage Learning.

Because this is an educational piece they don’t have examples of stylistic techniques. The only apparent one to me is parallelism. The writer talks about several times how the teachers at charter schools enjoy their jobs more by stating it several different ways. I am not sure if that is actually parallelism. She says on several different occasions that they do like their jobs more but she gives different reasons.