{"id":35721,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/the-costs-and-benefits-of-higher-education"},"modified":"2017-08-16T06:46:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T06:46:52","slug":"the-costs-and-benefits-of-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/the-costs-and-benefits-of-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"The costs and benefits of higher education"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the_content_wrapper\">\n<p>You will&nbsp;again&nbsp;practice responding to other people\u2019s ideas in your own writing.&nbsp;This essay helps you develop that skill further as you analyze a writer\u2019s ideas and evaluate the potential impacts of those ideas. As you craft your own argument, you will work on thesis development, organization, revision, and editing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Required Readings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prior to writing your&nbsp;essay, you will read and discuss Suzanne Mettler\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Degrees of Inequality:&nbsp; How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our theme for this unit in class is \u201cThe Costs and Benefits of Higher Education.\u201d&nbsp;Throughout her book,&nbsp;Mettler&nbsp;explores the politics that built and undermined a dream of providing higher education for everybody.&nbsp; She ultimately provides hope, but the book clearly presents the circumstances that have eroded hope in the past.&nbsp; What do you think the future of college accessibility is?&nbsp; Do you think college can be affordable for everyone? &nbsp;In this essay you will cross-reference future hopes with past challenges to come up with your analysis of Mettler\u2019s ideas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Writing Task&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Write a four to six page essay that responds to the following prompt:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Assess the future of college affordability.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Identify two reforms that could help mitigate the tuition and financial aid crisis, thus making college more affordable, and analyze their potential effectiveness.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Be sure to take into account the past challenges to reform effort and the difficulties of legislative maintenance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You will&nbsp;again&nbsp;practice responding to other people\u2019s ideas in your own writing.&nbsp;This essay helps you develop that skill further as you analyze a writer\u2019s ideas and evaluate the potential impacts of those ideas. As you craft your own argument, you will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/the-costs-and-benefits-of-higher-education\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}