{"id":35956,"date":"2024-10-25T04:13:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T04:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/the-question-you-need-to-address-for-essay-2-should-we-continue-to-encourage-every-high-school-student-to-go-to-college-to-pursue-a-standard-4-year-degree-or-are-we-encouraging-too-many-people-t\/"},"modified":"2024-10-25T04:13:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T04:13:07","slug":"the-question-you-need-to-address-for-essay-2-should-we-continue-to-encourage-every-high-school-student-to-go-to-college-to-pursue-a-standard-4-year-degree-or-are-we-encouraging-too-many-people-t","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/the-question-you-need-to-address-for-essay-2-should-we-continue-to-encourage-every-high-school-student-to-go-to-college-to-pursue-a-standard-4-year-degree-or-are-we-encouraging-too-many-people-t\/","title":{"rendered":"The question you need to address for Essay #2 Should we continue to encourage every high school student to go to college to pursue a standard 4 year degree? or Are we encouraging too many people to go to college to pursue a 4 year degree?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the not so distant past, let’s say before 1940 and World War 2, not very many people went to college. At that time, only about 4% or 5% of high school graduates in the U.S. went to college. In those days too, college was not expected for most people — mostly only the wealthy sent their children to college and it was mostly their sons, not their daughters. Another difference back then was that a college education was not so directly tied into careers or jobs in the ways that it is today. Most people back then didn’t go to college merely in order to pursue a specific career; it was just something that wealthy and cultivated people did. Of course, it was understood that a college education even back then would enhance someone’s career, especially if they went into one of the professions like law or medicine or business. But students didn’t go to college to study a particular field in order to be trained for a particular job or career. A college education back then was more of a social class marker than training for a particular career. <\/h4>\n

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After World War 2, the college experience in the U.S. started to change dramatically and quickly. The U.S. economy was expanding rapidly and more and more jobs required the technical and specialized education that could only be had with a college degree.  Along with the economy, U.S. college and university enrollments began expanding dramatically, and by the late 1960’s, the children born right after the war — baby boomers — were going to college in much higher percentages than their parents. By the end of the 1960’s, over half of all high school graduates went to college. A ten-fold increase in just one generation!<\/h4>\n

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These trends that began after WW2 have been going on ever since. Currently, over 70% of high school grads go on to college (they don’t all finish!). The direct connection between a college degree and a high paying career is now very well established. 85% of college students today say they are in college in order to get a good job. The conventional wisdom right now is that for most people a college degree is a virtual requirement for a high paying career. The statistics clearly support the idea that a college degree will pay:<\/h4>\n
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For this essay, you will need a minimum of three outside sources, and one of those must be a source that essentially disagrees with your position or offers an opposing view on the issue. You must bring up and then <\/span>counter-argue<\/em> <\/span>at least one significant point that contradicts or challenges your views. In other words, you will need to bring up a possible objection to your ideas and then explain what your response is to those ideas: do you think they are just wrong? or are they maybe right but not important? are they maybe right and even somewhat important but you still think your ideas overall make more sense?  For example, if I was arguing that we should continue to encourage everyone to go to college, I might bring up the counter-argument that only about half the people who start college ever finish. My response to this would be to accept that this is true (because, well, it is true) but to point out that there are many reasons a student might drop out of college and it doesn’t always mean they shouldn’t have even attempted it. Maybe colleges need to do a better job of helping students succeed or maybe we need better financial aid to help them, but telling them to not even try college would be a bad idea.<\/h4>\n

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You may use any of the articles from the “Reading Assignment for Essay #2” in your paper, but only one of them will count towards the three outside sources mentioned above. You will still need to find on your own at least 2 other sources to use in this essay.<\/h4>\n

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Also, at the time you turn in Essay #2 (it is due in week 10), you will also need to turn in an annotated bibliography of the 3 sources you used in your essay. This will be a separate assignment and there will be an Assignment Page in the Module that week for this assignment which will give you more information.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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College Became the Default.docx<\/a> <\/span><\/span>Download College Became the Default.docx<\/span><\/a><\/span>by John McWhorter<\/h4>\n

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The Misguided Priorities of Our Educational System.docx  <\/a> <\/span><\/span>Download The Misguided Priorities of Our Educational System.docx  <\/span><\/a><\/span>by Oren Cass<\/h4>\n

Let’s Stop Pretending College Degrees Don’t Matter<\/a> <\/span><\/span>Download Let’s Stop Pretending College Degrees Don’t Matter<\/span><\/a><\/span>   by Ben Wildavsky<\/h4>\n

Higher Education as a Path Out of Poverty is Now More Myth than Reality<\/a> <\/span><\/span>Download Higher Education as a Path Out of Poverty is Now More Myth than Reality<\/span><\/a><\/span>  by Jodie Kirshner<\/h4>\n

Is College Worth It.docx  <\/a> <\/span><\/span>Download Is College Worth It.docx  <\/span><\/a><\/span>by David Leonhardt<\/h4>\n

Without a College Degree . . .<\/a> <\/span><\/span>Download Without a College Degree . . .<\/span><\/a><\/span>  by Anne Case and Angus Deaton<\/h4>\n

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