A Boost for the World's Poorest Schools

                 

Ever wonder how many children in the world do not attend school today? Well, right now, 69 million children do not go to school. Pretty big number, I'd say. However, in 1999, 106 million children didn't attend school, which is even worse. So, in 13 years, the world has increased the amount of kids going to school by 37 million. That's a lot of progress. Tina Rosenberg writes about the organization Save the Children and the Literacy Boost program they have developed in her New York Times article "A Boost for the World's Poorest Schools". The organization has done a lot of good for countries like Ethiopia, Nepal, Mozambique, and Malawi especially in providing for those children with illiterate parents. One of the shocking thing about the program was the large amount of absenteeism in the teachers. Their reasons including HIV, living in poverty, and too many kids in a class. However, Save the Children was able to develop a program where the student would take a picture of their teacher in the morning and afternoon of the school day to show that they were there.

Tina Rosenberg's strongest technique in "A Boost for the World's Poorest Schools" is her logos appeal. Her first logos appeal is the statistics she uses throught the article including 69 million children don't attend school, 18 percent increase in primary school enrollment in sub-Sahara Africa, schools in Malawi with 175 students in a class, and 20 percent of teacher absenteeism in Uganda. Rosenberg's second logos appeal is through the people she quotes and how relevant they are including Amy Jo Dowd Save the Children's senior adviser to educational research, Idalina Mauaie a teacher in Chingoe, Mozambique and Esther Duflo a poverty researcher at Harvard University. Throughout the article, Rosenberg uses the pathos appeal for the audiences that have an education and go to school to feel grateful for what they have and sympathize for those 69 million children who don't go to school. Rosenberg also gives her audience an understanding of what the definition o going to school in third world countries is like with books, supplies, teachers, class sizes, and the style of learning. After reading Tina Rosenberg's article from the New York Times, I definitely have more of an appreciation for my education.

Source: Rosenberg, Tina. "A Boost for the World's Poorest Schools." The New York Times 19 Jan. 2012, sec. Opinion: n. pag. The New York Times. Web. 20 Jan. 2012.

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