definitions

Using definitions when reaching your audience is extremely important. Especially when you are writing about a news article, current event, etc. If you don't define, or break down to every little detail, the audience isn't going to understand and your writing is also left up to interpretation. When defining, you want to be perfectly clear so that your audience has no question as to what you are talking about or explaining. 

In the article I chose, democratic senator Tom Harkin, is proposing a bill that would in a few ways 'overhaul' the No Child Left Behind law. President Obama recently stated that he was to use executive power to override and to attempt to fix the law because he had no hope in congress to alleviate the problem. The Harkin bill is looking to give power back to the states to run their own education system. The main problem and criticism of the bill is that is would scrap the central accountability system proposed in No Child Left Behind. In doing so, schools would have no access to federal funding unless they were to show a certain percentage of achievement each year. 9 out of 10 schools have been driven in classroom teaching for the past decade. Many think that the Harkin bill would be a major step backward.