The reforms to improve the quality of public education that have been initiated on the part of suppliers of public education have been insufficient. Therefore, reforms must be demanded by consumers. Parents should be given government vouchers with which to pay for their children’s education and should be allowed to choose the schools at which the vouchers will be spent. To attract students, academically underachieving schools will be forced to improve their academic offerings.
The argument assumes that
(A) in selecting schools parents would tend to prefer a reasonable level of academic quality to greater sports opportunities or more convenient location
(B) improvement in the academic offerings of schools will be enforced by the discipline of the job market in which graduating students compete
(C) there is a single best way to educate students
(D) children are able to recognize which schools are better and would influence their parents’ decisions
(E) schools would each improve all of their academic offerings and would not tend to specialize in one particular field to the exclusion of others
OA D
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wow, i don't like any of the answers on this question. certainly none of them is good enough for an official gmat question.sogmat wrote:The reforms to improve the quality of public education that have been initiated on the part of suppliers of public education have been insufficient. Therefore, reforms must be demanded by consumers. Parents should be given government vouchers with which to pay for their children’s education and should be allowed to choose the schools at which the vouchers will be spent. To attract students, academically underachieving schools will be forced to improve their academic offerings.
The argument assumes that
(A) in selecting schools parents would tend to prefer a reasonable level of academic quality to greater sports opportunities or more convenient location
(B) improvement in the academic offerings of schools will be enforced by the discipline of the job market in which graduating students compete
(C) there is a single best way to educate students
(D) children are able to recognize which schools are better and would influence their parents’ decisions
(E) schools would each improve all of their academic offerings and would not tend to specialize in one particular field to the exclusion of others
OA D
what's the source?
if this showed up on the gmat, the correct answer would likely be something along the lines of "academically underachieving schools cannot attract parents in any way other than improving their academic performance".
THAT is a necessary assumption, because, unless that's true, the "forced" part of the conclusion isn't true (because they could attract parents in some other way).
since this is closest to choice (a), i'd have to pick (a).
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Voit esittää kysymyksiä Ron:lle myös suomeksi
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