Counterargument:
P1: Most students lack the very literacy skills at the primary and secondary levels of school. In 2013, in both reading and math, only 31% of NYS students passed. (Berry, S, 2014) P2: Federal funding for testing literacy skills is limited. 76% of districts in Common Core State Standards (CCSS) states …show more content…
Officials for NYS education confirm though they have spent millions of dollars on training educators to better prepare students to score higher on proficiency scores, the scores were still low for both math and English. This means there are not sufficient funds for the Arts and Humanities as these funds are needed to support the hard work ahead to continue training our educators. Being that the literacy skills are lacking in America 's children, we can see that there is not enough funding to support the Arts and Humanities. Therefore, it is a better decision to allocate funding into the training of our …show more content…
Premise 1, 2 and 3 provide the best available evidence statistically for the conclusion. My inductive reasoning makes broad generalizations from specific observations statistically based on my resources (Hardy J., Foster, C., & Zunga Y Postigo, G., 2015). We start out with the first premise that backs up the dilemma in today 's current generation of students. Then, we move to the second premise of limited federal funds and thirdly to businesses referencing 600,000 unfilled jobs due to the lack of skilled workers. Concluding that it is more than wise to allocate funds to support the common core tests to improve literacy test score outcomes, which confirms the