Rhetorical Analysis

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“Today, the United States is falling behind many other countries in international rankings (Ravich, 2011) is a quote Susan Drake provides in her chapter on Accountability and Two-Dimensional Thinking (pp. 28). Similar to the beliefs of the Essentialist thinker William Bagley in the 1930’s, Drake mentions that the Common Core State Standards are our country’s way of responding to the educational shortcomings of today. In a synopsis provided by Link (2008), essentialism is the belief that education should be “rich in basic curriculum content (pp. 2).” Bagley’s philosophy that essential skills should be taught and mastered by students mimic our current movement for a standards-based approach Drake effectively outlines in her text. Link points