The National Education Association site in general does a good job of bringing together a large variety of informational statistics regarding reading and literacy in the United States. The National Education Association focuses on the tangible aspects of reading and illiteracy in the United States. Each claim is easy to understand and easy to devise an in-home solution to help the individual children to become better readers. Not only is the National Education Association a widely recognized institute for the improvement of the United Stats’ Public School system, the site also gains most of its information from a separate third party source, specifically the United States Department of Education. Their claims are supported through references
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The National Education Association agrees that there are more than one factor causing the illiteracy in schools and young children. They also claim that are read to frequently as children express stronger reading skills and willingness to read. Their claims are in line with most assumptions made by teachers and school administration to help parents to reduce their children’s illiteracy issues. They claim that if children are read to more, their overall reading scores will increase, and will increase the most if the child is reading to others. They also claim that if parents are more involved in the school and classroom, there is a 74 point difference in scores of children with involved parents and children with uninvolved …show more content…
The National Education Association focuses its attention on what the education system is not doing well and what we can improve upon, rather than also including what is working in the educational system and how it is currently benefiting the education of America’s youth. Opposing views are lightly considered, however, when the site compares the percentages of children who are able to read and are not illiterate who partake in the activities that can increase their overall ability to read and the percentage of children who are able to read and not illiterate who do not participate in the activities that the National Education Association advocates will help improve reading skills. This is the main extent to which the opposing side of the argument is proposed and it is very limited. The focus of the site is on the education of illiteracy and reading in children in the United States and thus the site does not believe that the opposing view needs to be presented since all of the information is fact and very limited information that is not supported by statistics. There are not many way to dispute a statistics without another statistic, which could in turn reduce the reliability of the original
The National Education Association agrees that there are more than one factor causing the illiteracy in schools and young children. They also claim that are read to frequently as children express stronger reading skills and willingness to read. Their claims are in line with most assumptions made by teachers and school administration to help parents to reduce their children’s illiteracy issues. They claim that if children are read to more, their overall reading scores will increase, and will increase the most if the child is reading to others. They also claim that if parents are more involved in the school and classroom, there is a 74 point difference in scores of children with involved parents and children with uninvolved …show more content…
The National Education Association focuses its attention on what the education system is not doing well and what we can improve upon, rather than also including what is working in the educational system and how it is currently benefiting the education of America’s youth. Opposing views are lightly considered, however, when the site compares the percentages of children who are able to read and are not illiterate who partake in the activities that can increase their overall ability to read and the percentage of children who are able to read and not illiterate who do not participate in the activities that the National Education Association advocates will help improve reading skills. This is the main extent to which the opposing side of the argument is proposed and it is very limited. The focus of the site is on the education of illiteracy and reading in children in the United States and thus the site does not believe that the opposing view needs to be presented since all of the information is fact and very limited information that is not supported by statistics. There are not many way to dispute a statistics without another statistic, which could in turn reduce the reliability of the original