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the assignment is at least 1750 words and everything you need to know will be included in flies I uploaded.Outline, sources you can use, example article. outline_and_sources.docx cp_project.docx sample_ap__charter_school_accountability.pdf Unformatted Attachment Preview Advocacy Project Outline Instructions: Use this outline if you need help writing a first draft of the AP--this outline is not prescriptive, meaning you are not required to construct your argument in this way--it is ONE way you could start--an entry into a strong first draft. 1. INTRODUCTION (about 1 page): Use the introduction you wrote for the CP as a rough draft for your introduction to the AP. You will have to revise the CP Introduction, make it stronger given the new sources you have read since you wrote it and add a thesis statement that clearly states your purpose in the AP: To develop an argument about which efforts to address the problem work best, explain why, and offer possible next steps. By the end of your introduction, the reader should clearly understand your position (what your argument is). Once you state your thesis, your job in the rest of the AP is to defend and develop that thesis using your research/sources. 2. CONTEXT ( @ 2-3 pages): Follow the introduction with about 2-4 pages of context; this means you will condense your CP project into about 2-4 pages (be strategic here; ask: what is most important for my reader to know in order to understand what I am advocating/arguing for in my AP? Remember your purpose here is to convince the reader of your position, so keep the parts of your CP that best prepare and convince the reader for the efforts/solutions you are arguing for and cut everything else out. The word count for the AP is between 1750 and 1800 words, not more, not less, please keep this in mind as you draft your AP and decide what parts of the CP to keep and what to cut 3. EVALUATE OTHER SOLUTIONS (3 pages): Introduce and evaluate one or more significant efforts/solutions to address the problem you describe in your CP. Use the 5 argumentative strategies in AGWR pgs. 243-244 to explain why other solutions will not work or are not enough, or are inadequate; explain why part of a solution will work and part will not. Use your sources to explain your reasons: why you think this will work and that will not. Remember that part of your task in this essay is to develop an argument by analyzing the positions of academics and other experts, including those who offer perspectives that are not in agreement with your own. 4. ADVOCATE (ARGUE) FOR YOUR POSITION/ARGUE FOR WHAT YOU THINK NEEDS TO HAPPEN (@ 3-4 pages): Explain the reasons why you think/know your “solution” is the right way to go. Make a case for why the solution you proposed in your THESIS is the right one—advocate for it with evidence, sources, that are compelling and convince your readers. You can argue for one solution, argue for combining solutions, argue for a modified version of a proposed solution, or maybe your position is that none of the solutions in the literature work. Whatever your position is, defend it with deeply engaged research. You can and should include personal experience if you think it is applicable yet make sure that if you use it, it is enhancing not replacing your research-based argument. 5. CONCLUSION (@ 1 page): Use the conclusion to offer possible next steps. Show the reader that you have thought carefully about this issue, the solution you are advocating for, and the implications of what you are advocating for. AP Source Evaluation Sources 8 (Popular) Toure, Madina. “NYC Has the Most Segregated Schools in the Country. How Do We Fix That?” Observer, Observer, 15 June 2018, observer.com/2018/06/new-york-city-public-schoolsegregation/. This news article is written by Madina Toure an education policy and politics reporter in New York City, she focus ion k-12 and higher education in her articles and reports. In this article “NYC Has the Most Segregated Schools in the Country. How Do We Fix That?” Marina focus on the policy changes in the NYC in order to fix the education inequality, she gives interview from students in segregated schools and students from elite schools, and how would their parents react to the changes with the policy that wants the make schools districts combine. She argues that the policy would make big changes but there are going to be impedes on the way. In this article, Madina gives several interview from educations experts students and their parents, for instance Jorge Morales, 18, a senior at New Heights Academy Charter School in Harlem and a Teens Take Charge leader (9) stated his perspective to the observer press, the students wanted to have less segregation in their schools and he was hopping his schools can be more diverse in race. One of the education expert in NYC states that the solution is improving middle schools as well as education overall in neighborhoods that are majority black and Latino (14). The purpose of this news article is to not only show how serious the segregation in NYC but also the how hard it is to make changes about it, the article mention the previous mayor wanted to make changes to segregated schools in the city but the policy never come true, marina gives perspective from parents that agree with the combination and also parents that is already enjoying the supreme education resources that don’t want the policy to come true. For this article, the basis should be rare because there are many perspective from many point of views, and statement starting from different angles. Marina never made any conclusions about these arguments so the biases should be rare. This article address the policy changes in NYC and perspectives about this policy, this policy can help to developing my AP project because there are also many education experts analysis the policy and many scholar statements was made in the article. Source 9 (Popular) Adely, Hannan. “Students Pitch Solutions to Racial Segregation in Schools.” AP NEWS, Associated Press, 2 Mar. 2019, apnews.com/f58d4060d8514910ad1aad39ad2dccd7. The article “Students Pitch Solutions to Racial Segregation in Schools.” written by Hannan Adely, she is a new reporter in New Jersey covering education and diversity issue, with a focus on civil liberties bias and refugees. This article is certainly her central focus and she writes articles for several news agency like AP NEWS and Atlantic NEWS. This article is reporting a research group discussing the segregation in education system, even though the group are not form by some experts and government members, but the debate are solid basted on evidences and sound. The articles describe how these students debate the reason why the school in their community are segregated and what people are government should do to fix these problems. Even though their suggestions have not authorities but the evidences they stated are fairly convincing and sound, for example one of the students gives data to show how bad New Jersey in school segregation: “New Jersey is ranked the sixth-most-segregated state in the nation for black students, and seventh for Latino students, according to a study by the Civil Rights Project at UCLA(2).” What is more, they cited historical evidence to support their argument: “We’ve ended up with a society that’s more segregated than it was in 1954, when Brown v. Board of Education was passed(2).” This articles gives be a brand new perspective of understanding solutions to schools segregation. Unlike more of the articles providing data and giving interviews to many experts, this news article form by debate conversation from college students that care for their community and wanted to fix the problems, their suggestions are sound and supported with good evidences, it provides a new perspective to show how people and government react to education segregation. I do think this articles contain the amount of biases because most of the debaters are just student came from the same community so their perspectives does not have many differences and they are looking at the problem with the same angle, the biases are exist and I should beware of them. This news article are important to develop my AP project because they have stated so many possibilities in solving the schools segregation and each of them are supported with evidence, I can use to to support my arguments in I want, and combine these evidence with other articles with more authorities Source 10 (Popular) Strauss, Valerie. “The Reason America’s Schools Are so Segregated — and the Only Way to Fix It.” The Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2016, www.washingtonpost.com/news/answersheet/wp/2016/12/14/the-reason-americas-schools-are-so-segregated-and-the-only-way-tofix-it/. Accessed 21 May 2020. The author of the article “the reason America’s schools are so segregated – and the way to fix it” is written by Valarie Strauss. Strauss is a reporter of the Washington Post that covers the topics of education and foreign affairs. Strauss is an education writer of the Answer Sheet blog. She came to The Washington Post as an assistant foreign editor for Asia in 1987. She also previously worked at UPI and the LA Times. Strauss has a Bachelors degree from the University of Miami and a masters degree from Northwestern University. This particular article by Strauss digs into the history behind segregation in schools. She says that segregation at first was because the states and districts used to run segregated schools, but in the last few decades, they have been going back to segregation. Strauss uses the data from the federal government that showed that the number of high-poverty schools serving black and brown students has more than doubles between 2001 and 2014. Strauss indicates the governments approach to the issue, for example, the introduction of a bill to the New York City Council to understand the cause and remedies of racial segregation in schools. Strauss also uses the work of Richard Rothstein. Strauss notes that it is useless to study school segregation without studying residential segregation. School separation is connected to the neighborhoods. Strauss notes that the reason for school segregation in the 20thcentury segregation of the neighborhoods by city, state, and neighborhood governments. The author ends by stating that the only way to remedy the situation is by integrating neighborhoods through housing policies. The article’s credibility is enhanced by the use of different sources from the government and other authors. This article provides an insight into the history behind the segregation of the society in general; it provides a different approach towards the way that the governments can work to solve the problem. The governments have a better chance to change the problem of segregation in schools by first changing the housing policies, which in turn affect the attendance of schools. The article opens the project to the role that the city, state, and federal governments play in changing the deplorable conditions of segregation in schools. Source 11 (Popular) Smith-Thompson, Toni. “To Fix Segregation in Schools, We Must Understand How We Got Here.” New York Civil Liberties Union, 16 May 2018, www.nyclu.org/en/news/fixsegregation-schools-we-must-understand-how-we-got-here. Accessed 21 May 2020. “To Fix Segregation in Schools, We Must Understand How We Got Here” is a news article written by Toni Smith-Thompson, who is an organizer in the Advocacy Department, where she focuses on campaigns to strengthen public education. Toni works on the New York Civil Liberties Unions efforts on reduction of school suspensions and arrests, promoting equity through school integration, among others. She is also a part of a team working to develop new leaders through the NYCLU’s new volunteer program. The article by Toni is based on the theme that segregation remains in schools in the country in an intractable manner. Smith-Thompson brings the importance of understanding segregation in school and housing. She uses the works of Professor of Education, Pedro Noguera, who says, maintaining racially segregated schools by law or social convention was practiced widely throughout the US and premised on the notion that racially inferior children should be educated separately.” The government-backed segregation through housing policies. The author notes that the reason the country got to segregation was because of the government, not a social accident. Because there have been policies trying to stop segregation, the schools have started to use other proxies like housing status, socio-economic status, priced lunch, and even test scores. The proxies stigmatize and reinforce bad belied on race, achievement, and ability. The purpose of the article is to unearth the other ways that schools are using to discriminate along racial lines. The water seamlessly moves from the government’s augmentation of segregation to the way schools have devised new segregation methods. The recommends changing the view of quality education as being a charity. The article is important because it gives a specific example of District 3 and how the people have reacted to policies that governments are putting forth. The District has forced the parents to use a lot of resources in tutoring their children to get better grades so they can be admitted to better schools. The article helps to open the project to other ways of implementing segregation in schools and therefore, how to find means of tackling the problem. The history of segregation is as important as the newer methods used to further the segregation in schools. Source 12 (Scholar) “Race and Schools: The Need for Action.” NEA, 2020, www.nea.org/home/13054.htm. Accessed 21 May 2020. The article, “Race and Schools: The Need for Action” is written by Gary Orfield in the National Education Association Research Visiting Scholars Series. Gary Orfield is a civil rights activist in the civil rights project at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has been involved in developing government policy and has participated as a court-appointed expert in several civil rights cases and has been called to testify in civil rights suits by the United States department of justice as well as other legal services and educational organizations. In the article, the main point is that a nation, it is expected of us to create equal outcomes for students who are disadvantaged because of their racial orientations. He points out that segregation has worsened in the United States from the time that the Supreme Court stated dissolving desegregation plans years ago. The article suggests that the first step is for educators to recognize and demand changes in racial conditions outside the schools that make their work so much harder. Such conditions are like wage policy, housing policy, and health care. Besides, there is need to demand a civil rights agenda for our schools and third, is to develop support and training plans to empower teachers with the necessary skills they need to better work with the students of all backgrounds and to teach with practices and materials that completely recognize the contributions of all cultures and races in the united states. The article points out evidence from the past by referencing the sentiments of former president George w bush, ”President George W. Bush was fundamentally right when he highlighted massive inequalities in education for minority students” (Orfield, par 5). It also cites a survey of a national sample of NEA teachers to show how teachers and students are segregated. (Orfield, para 6). In my understanding, the article points out that addressing the issue of racial segregation is a necessary part of the education system, for it is the core of how our schools and communities work, and addressing the issue is part of the groundwork for successful education reform and community integration. This article will give me insights moving forward to understand and analyze the racial segregation issue as well as help me in my career as a civil rights activist. Source 13 (Popular) Cohen, Rachel M. “How to Fix School Segregation: Fix College Admissions?” The Atlantic, The Atlantic, 23 May 2018, www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/05/an-unusual-idea-forfixing-school-segregation/560930/. Accessed 21 May 2020. “How to Fix School Segregation: Fix College Admissions” is an article by Rachel M Cohen that appeared in The Atlantic. Rachel Cohen is an award-winning journalist who is based in Washington, DC. She specializes in politics and policy issues with n intersection between the two. Her works have appeared in the Atlantic, the Washington Post, among others. She points out in this article that racial segregation can be solved by changing how college admissions work. The main factor is to take school demographics into account when doing college admissions. The method will give priority to applicants who attend schools with a threshold of low-income students. This way, admissions will favor students who attended economically intergrade schools the same way it does for students with outstanding extracurricular activities or unusual travel experiences. The article based its argument on a theory brought forth by Thomas Scott-Railton, a Yale law school graduate. Scott, on the other hand, based her arguments and insights from Nikole Hannah-jones reporting on this American life on school segregations in the metropolitan area of St. Louis. The suburb was affected by the prospects of black students from the neighborhood enrolling in public skills. The article has credible and valid sources for the interviews that are practical and relevant to the ongoing situation. To back up the claims, the article uses a case in year 2016 where colleges sought to change applicant behavior where admission officers of more than fifty universities signed on the report led by Harvard graduate school of education. The article has some biases, however, for it only focuses on students from low-income families. However, there are students affected by racial segregation not because of their economic status but by the color of their skin. Besides, the whole theory is new and has not been tested on a wider scale; hence its positive outcome cannot be guaranteed. The article is important for my studies because it advances a new way of thinking about ancient problems and encourages me to think positively about integrating admissions and diversity in higher education for the betterment and good of the society. Peng 1 Writing 39C Ding Peng Professor Venegas Writing 39C Context Project May 08, 2020 Is There an Answer to Segregated School? The Segregation in Southern California High Schools System and Solution to these Schools When I was just an elementary school student watching TV shows about high school students, I quickly realized something was off, why are that beautiful elite school has only a few black students and those schools that looks not so great and clean have much more color students. According to the Stancil, “segregated schools were doubled between 1996 and 2016, ethnic minority children went to these schools increase from 59 to 66 percent, and for black students, the number increased from 59 to 71 percent” (Stancil 1). American students are suffering from school segregation and specially ethnic minority students. California is one of the more segregated state in the country, data shows that across southern California, 171 schools, more than 14\% in the state, are attended by student populations at least 90\% minority or 90\% white (Ariel 3). School segregation could lead to many problems such as education resources inequality, unhealthy ethnic diversity, and poverty to certain races. The more ethnic minority student will have fewer choices in their career because of the low-quality education they received in the segregation school. The data provided by Stancil are really alarming and people in the United States that we should really take this problem seriously. In this article, I’m going to explore the extend and c ... Purchase answer to see full attachment