Stephanie Owen's Should Everyone Go To College

Have you ever thought about if you should go to college or not? Or if you were a fit for the college lifestyle. The excerpt Should Everyone Go to College answers those questions for you. The excerpt is a very interesting piece it informs the reader with a lot of data, and specific topics throughout the reading. They go into detail about how certain college graduates earn more than others, and also earnings between College and High school graduates. Should Everyone Go to College makes a strong argument through reliable authors, accurate data, and it is organized well.

The authors in Should Everyone Go to College are reliable. Them being reliable makes the argument that much more effective. Not only do they have validity, they also have a lot

Stephanie Owen and Isabel Sawhill both have very reliable backgrounds as both come from working in institutes and the center for children and families. This isn’t the first time these two have come together and shared information about higher education issues. Stephanie Owen came from has come out with a wide variety of books and excerpts. Owen happens to have a background in family and children as she works as a “senior research assistant at Brookings’ Center on family and children.” (Sawhill & Owen, 2015). This gives Owen a background in family and children allowing her to find stats on how things operate in a family. Owen also, “serves as a research associate at the Urban Institute.” (Sawhill & Owen, 2015). Owen is a research associate this gives her reliability, and it also allows her to gather certain information to back up what she says. Isabel Sawhill serves as a “Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at

The authors use the data very effectively as they use charts and graphs to help back up the information they have presented in the text. Accurate data not only back up their points, it is used to persuade the student to maybe choose a different route for schooling. The authors break down the number of earnings for bachelor degrees, and high school diplomas from the age of 22 to 64. The data is effectively presented through a chart comparing the data showing that the people who graduate with a bachelor’s degree end up with “$12,000 dollars more than high school graduates.” (Sawhill & Owen, 2015). Making money has been what drives students to go to college rather than education, and the authors made a very strong point. They present a graph about how the return of investment intertwines with the type of schooling the student gets. The result was that the most competitive schools have the best return of investment at “11% for public school, and 13% for private schooling.” (Sawhill & Owen, 2015). This is important data as they allow students to see if what college they should go to. As they get into work-life earnings for specific majors they use a graph presenting the data of how each major fair when they graduate with a bachelor’s degree “The highest paid major is engineering, followed by computers and math” (Sawhill & Owen, 2015). Engineering is at the top of the list when it comes to salary and education ends up being the