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TSI Reading: Why Might the Author Have Written This Passage? 3 Views


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What is the most likely reason the author might have for writing this passage?

(A)To obtain more funding for technical education
(B)To persuade readers to take a CTE course
(C)To inform readers about the benefits of CTE courses
(D)To prevent students from dropping out of high school


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Okay the question what's The most likely reason the author

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might have for writing this passage other than to torture

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you with trying to analyze it All right well approximately

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ninety percent of students who spent their high school years

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participating in career and technical education or cto courses will

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graduate a significantly higher rate than those who do not

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participate Ct students are more engaged Eighty one percent of

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high school dropouts say that relevant real world learning opportunities

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would have kept them in high school according to the

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association for career and technical education So of course they're

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selling their own wears their people like many ct programs

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a partner with colleges universities and employers draw for course

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credit and on the job training art So what's the

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most likely reason author to have for writing this well

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to inform readers about the benefits of seti courses so

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they can sell you courses those people selling courses like

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on the internet out there then awake Okay so think

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about this after reading the past and yet we know

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a lot more about career and technical education than we

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did before Right specifically we know more about high school

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dropout rates riel world learning opportunities and partnership with colleges

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and employers who offer special training Yeah ct courses obviously

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offer a bunch of benefits and his passage successfully informed

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us of what some of those are any honor about

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you But i can live weeks without my existential theory

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and hamlet analysis But not more than one week without

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my garbage picked up So yeah go c t e 00:01:27.037 --> [endTime] or just go study

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