AP Seminar Oral Defense Question

How did the group decide to include HANNAH'S perspectives/lens/conclusions into the overall presentation?

* show how different areas struggle more
* how it affects the education
* how it affects the student

How did the group decide to include TORI'S perspectives/lens/conclusions into the overall presentation?

* shows the history of underfunding
* how it continuously decreases
* how political leaders practically ignore the issues underfunding causes

How did the group decide to include SKYLAR'S perspectives/lens/conclusions into the overall presentation?

* if educational funding continues to decrease the future of the teachers, students, and other staff will be affected


* the problems that will arise due to the underfunding (education-wise and economic-wise)

Give one specific way that your thinking changed as a result of learning about TORI'S findings?

Tori's research showed us the continuous downfall of educational funding.

Give one specific way that your thinking changed as a result of learning about SKYLAR'S findings?

Skylar's research showed us how the lack of funding leads to the downfall of education, and how it affects the teachers, students, and the future of our country.

Give one specific way that your thinking changed as a result of learning about HANNAH'S findings?

Hannah's research showed us how higher income areas have more funding in their schools, and the lower income areas have less funding.

Reflecting on your colleagues' work, which one had the greatest impact on your overall understanding of the problem your group identified?

* Skylar's futuristic lens
* it helped me understand how the underfunding of public schools affects not only the staff, but also the academic abilities of the students, and the future of our country.

What is a way in which your team's resolution makes you think differently about your own individual research?

it allowed me to realize how the government is prioritizing and funding unnecessary projects rather than worrying about educating the country's future generations.

Describe an argument from one of your peer's individual reports that made you think differently about your team's solution or conclusion?

Hannah's research from the cultural and social lens helped me realize how solution three, cutting welfare funding, would negatively affect the lower-income areas before the positive implications are shown within the educational systems.