Schedule from 4-16-4-23
4-16 Should Community College be Free? Develop an argumentative thesis that addresses the claim that community college should be free.
4-18 Peer Edit for Essay 3 and Portfolio Grading Part 1
4-23 Essay #3 Due
Essay #3 Due 4-23-19
In the context of Annie Lowry’s Give People Money, support, refute, or complicate the argument that Universal Basic Income is a necessary implementation for human rights, social order, and permanent unemployment.
For other sources:
Read Oren Cass’ “Why a Universal Basic Income Is a Terrible Idea” and write an essay that supports, defends, or complicates the author’s position that UBI will do more harm than good. For sources, I refer you to Universal Basic Income explained, UBI being used in other countries, UBI explained by Jordan Peterson as a life-purpose problem.
Option B (New Addition): Should Community College be Free?
Develop an argumentative thesis that addresses the claim that community college should be free.
Look at pros and cons from Forbes article.
Recent Atlantic article argues for free community college.
Option C: Read "In admissions scandal, the students should be expelled" by Michael Hiltzik and support or defend the author's assertion. Should rich students whose parents paid their way illegally into top-tier colleges be expelled? Are all these students equal? Some are not even taking classes seriously evidenced by their YouTube videos. Others may be performing well. Should their performance make a difference?
Also see Atlantic essay about "Real Scandal" and how there is no way to prevent the next college scandal.
See Clint Smith essay "Elite Colleges Constantly Tell Low-Income Students That They Don't Belong."
Steve Dunning's Forbes essay "The 'Jobless Future' Is a Myth"
Yuval Noah Harari's "The Rise of the Useless Class"
Should Community College be Free?
One. Rahm Emanuel in The Atlantic argues that community college, like K through 12, should be free.
Two. We see that free community college is no panacea or cure-all in The Washington Post article.
Option C: Read "In admissions scandal, the students should be expelled" by Michael Hiltzik and support or defend the author's assertion. Should rich students whose parents paid their way illegally into top-tier colleges be expelled? Are all these students equal? Some are not even taking classes seriously evidenced by their YouTube videos. Others may be performing well. Should their performance make a difference?
Also see Atlantic essay about "Real Scandal" and how there is no way to prevent the next college scandal.
See Clint Smith essay "Elite Colleges Constantly Tell Low-Income Students That They Don't Belong."
One. Michael Hiltzik argues that all the college students in the scandal should be expelled.
Two. Noah Feldman argues students should be assessed case by case in the question of being expelled or not.
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