Megan Hopkins proposes that TFA change its funding, first of all. She says that Districts can barely afford one teacher per classroom, let alone two; one master teacher and one resident teacher. There would need to be some way to compensate for the extra people. She also proposes that the TFA change their two-year terms to three because teachers should complete one residency year and two subsequent years on their own. She also proposes they provide incentives for the TFA members to teach longer than three years.
The ending is effective because it ends with a powerful quote that stays with the reader after he or she has read it. Hopkins's solutions could contribute to this goal by creating more teachers for the underprivileged America and making those teachers stronger teachers by tweaking the TFA's standards.
The intended audience for this proposal would be a board or committee of some kind that could change the requirements of the teachers belonging to the TFA. The essay is very formal and has a lot of statistics, so Hopkins is proposing it to a board of professionals. She also starts out the proposal with a very personal experience. She goes from a first person point of view to an academic point of view. I don't know if this is allowed but I'm sure it worked out in there somewhere, or it wouldn't be in a college textbook.
Hopkins anticipates questions by creating following head titles with topics that would follow up from her last paragraph. For example, "Possible Objections" or "Next Steps." She then answers any unheard questions about what her last paragraph was about and sums it all up nicely.
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