GOP robs Texas of its future

In this blog, http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/11127/gop-robs-texas-of-its-future, Libby Shaw severely attacks Texas Republican lawmakers on their recent decisions to cut many governmental funded budgets for social services and schools.  Libby makes a decent try to call out the republican lawmakers on their “a mean-spirited, heartless and cruel mission of SLASH economics” and expose the issue to the rest of the Democratic Party and its followers so they can persistently fight back to secure these vital funds that will tremendously help children in their education and low income minorities in their daily lives. 

The blogger strongly believes that the reason why the Republican lawmakers are doing these ‘harsh’ decisions is due to their luck of understanding the public needs. Libby also claims that these lawmakers are not intellectually capable of comprehending the importance of children education and these social service programs. Furthermore, she argues that the egocentricity and narcissistic interest of these lawmakers seems to cloud their rationality and integrity to compassionately do the right thing towards women, children and the poor. Libby also questions their mental and intellectual make up to formulate a reasonable budget that improves the lives of Texas’s citizens. Her depiction of the Republican lawmakers as “The Texas Taliban” clearly indicates her disgusted attitude towards their heartless and monstrous actions.   

Libby evidently illustrates several credible sources to polish her sharp accusation of the Republican lawmakers’ decisions. Embedded in her brutal insults, she carefully provides the readers with solid evidence and reason that simply explains her position on the issue. She effortlessly offers solid rationality to support her stance, drawing comparisons between past and present budget structures. She also strongly suggests several potential solutions to avoid this catastrophic turn of events for the Texas public.  Though, at times, the writer’s overwhelming hatred towards the Republican ideals regarding tax structure seems to stand out, her orderly composition of the piece didn’t astray away from her logically and statistically sound arguments to demonstrate the hypocrisy the lawmakers.   

Texas students should not take back seat to Research

In this editorial, http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/7498493.html, the author is formulating an apparent attempt to inform university students’ that they are not getting the education that they are paying for. In the mean time, he is also warning educational institutions and professors about misallocating students and regular taxpayers’ money by purely making research the priority

In this particular piece, Ronald L. Trowbridge explores the mere possibility of universities’ undivided focus on research and how that dwarf students’ educational development. Trowbridge claims that “singular quest for research can by itself be counterproductive to the education of students.”  He basically states that universities have shown a vehemently shift in prioritizing research over teaching, and teaching should be the first precedence.        

Trowbridge evidently believes the fact that “only 57 percent of those entering college actually achieving a degree” is because institutions are abandoning teaching in lieu of research. Universities are shying away from providing their customers with the best means and methods to enhance the excellence in student education. Quality teaching has rather been plummeting because research is competitively drifting away scholars’ and experienced faculty members from classroom time.    

Trowbridge lists five “problematic areas” that result from prioritizing research. This particular list is supposed to draw a logical conclusion as to how pure focus on research is vehemently hurting the quality of education.       

Trowbridge’s revelation of five main predicaments does attempt to shade a light on the mistakes that the universities are committing by prioritizing research. Though the few problematic citations do seem to have some type of correlation, the reasoning purely lucks solid rationality. It is a wild attempt to showcase the cause and effect of research and luck of quality teachings in universities.  The author simply presented collection prestigious university personnel’s quotes to support his mere argument. The author’s perspective lucks any statistical evidence to indicate correlation of research and decreasing in quality student teachings. It’s clearly an overstretched connection. The article also includes an outrageous generalization that research does not have any societal values. Though it depict the benefits of research for private corporations and suggests that universities get the funds from these privatized entities, it fails to recognize that professors still have to utilize classroom time to conduct these privately funded researches. In this sense, the author’s claim seems to be in conflict.