23. This speaker draws the conclusion that there is no need to substantially increase
funding for Einstein High School. To support this conclusion, the speaker claims that
Einstein has improved its educational efficiency over the past 20 years, even though
funding level s have remained relatively constant. His evidence is that two-thirds of
Einsteins graduates now go on to college, whereas 20 years ago only half of its students
did so. This argument suffers from several critical problems.
To begin with, we must establish the meaning of the vague concept educational
efficiency. If the term is synonymous with the rate of graduation to college, then the
statistics cited would strongly support the argument. But, normally we are interested in
something more than just the numbers of students who go on to college from a high
school; we also want to know how well the school has prepared students for a
successful college experience―that is, whether the school has provided a good
secondary education. Thus, for the speaker the term educational efficiency must
essentially carry the same meaning as educational quality.
Given this clarification, one of the speakers assumptions is that the rate of
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