(1) Education long been viewed as a tool for solving social problems.
(2) Many people consider a school to be responsible for taking young people from diverse backgrounds and turning them into law-abiding citizens.
(3) An important question arises.
(4) If education is the answer to social problems, how can schools themselves be a social problem?
(5) According to many critics, the answer is that schools are not performing their job good enough.
(6) The above notion is tied to the belief that there is a serious problem with America’s education system.
(7) According to noted scholars, schooling in the United States lacks one essential ingredient for success.
(8) This key factor is the involvement of the community.
(9) Many are familiar with the old African proverb: “It takes a whole village to raise a single child.”
(10) Hence, one is surprised that education in America survives at all without it.
(11) Education is considered a cure for societal problems, schools are often blamed for those same problems.
(12) Yet the roots of failure start not in the classrooms but in the broader fabric of society; the workplace, city streets, and the home.
(13) This was made evident by dramatic changes in American society over the last few decades. (14) First, economic growth has come at a tremendous cost to the nation’s most disadvantagedcitizens.
(15) Second, the number of people who vote has declined.
(16) Finally, there has been a noticeable rise in single parent homes, and there has been a noticeable rise in homes in which both parents have entered the workforce.
Which of the following is the best revision of the underlined portion of sentence 11 reproduced below?
Education is considered a cure for societal problems, schools are often blamed for those same problems.
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features a comma splice, making for a long run-on sentence. Both sides of the comma are independent clauses that could stand alone as separate sentences. Look for an answer choice that fixes this problem with either a semicolon in place of the comma or the addition of a conjunction. The splice remains in B, which changes the sentence from present tense to past tense. C replaces the comma with a semicolon, but it also incorrectly removes the verb from the second part of the sentence. D is awkward and breaks the logic of the sentence. The best choice is E, which inserts the conjunction “and” to make a complete sentence.
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societal problems, schools were
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societal problems; schools
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societal problems, such as schools being
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societal problems, and schools are
