Early College student's vs Regular Highschool student's

Kristina Zeiser, in the article “Evaluating the Impact of Early College High Schools” argues and explains that early college students have multiple benefits that help them succeed in post-secondary education. The author discusses how students who were in the early college program feel that it helped them be better prepared for rigorous college life. Zeiser gives multiple accounts of evidence to support the claim. The claim that early college students gain more opportunities and are more likely to seek out post-secondary education, than their peers that are not in the early college program. Zeiser touches on subtopics that have relation to the main claim. Zeiser discusses how there is significant cost benefit in early college programs. Zeiser discusses how obtaining early college credits will help with overall student debt. Zeiser shares statistics on the rate of early college students who enroll into college compared to non-early college students. Zeiser also explains how students who choose the early college program will be able to attain a bachelor’s degree faster and cheaper than if you go the longer route, which is not being in the early college program. The author Zeiser provides facts and data that support the conclusion, which is that early college programs benefit students and provide more preparedness and opportunities. Zeiser supports the argument by justifying the argument with massive quantities of evidence and statistics. Zeiser supports the claims as well as provides insight on the benefits of the early college program. How taking this route to enhance an education pathway would be a beneficial and smart move. The article’s purpose is to prove with statistics, evidence, and graphs that the early college program is a program that works to enhance education and further prepare students for the rigors of college education. So that more students and parents who read this article strongly consider going into this program to enhance personal education, preparedness, and opportunities.

Zeiser, Kristina. “Evaluating the Impact of Early College High Schools.” Air.org,
https://www.air.org/project/evaluating-impact-early-college-high-schools .Accessed 6 Mar. 2022

This article provides insight on how different regular high school students are to early college students. Average high school students are not provided with the same amount of preparedness as to students who are in the early college program. This articles argument is a grey area to the argument of how high school students are unprepared for college. It supports the argument but is also against it. The argument is a general argument about how all high school students (including early college students since they are also high schoolers) are unprepared for college. In the article provided it sheds knowledge about how different the early college program students are to regular high school students, who don't take any college courses in high school. This article argues that early college students are prepared for college because they are given more opportunities to be prepared for college, unlike regular students. Hence why it also supports the argument, because the early college program is a special case when it comes to high school. Regular high school students do not have the same opportunities to be prepared. Traditionally high schools did not have any way to take college classes while taking high school classes. So regular high schoolers are especially unprepared compared to early college program high school students.