首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
Several weeks ago. three of the country’s most respected institutions of higher learning, Harvard, Princeton, and the University
Several weeks ago. three of the country’s most respected institutions of higher learning, Harvard, Princeton, and the University
admin
2015-09-30
47
问题
Several weeks ago. three of the country’s most respected institutions of higher learning, Harvard, Princeton, and the University of Virginia, announced that they were embarking on a nationwide campaign to recruit more poor students.
Consider the efforts to recruit poor students. Harvard, Princeton, and U. Va. are reacting to a troubling pattern; The percentage of low-income students at elite colleges and universities is quite low. Precise figures are hard to come by, but a 2004 report indicated that at the most selective colleges, only 3 percent of the students were from the poorest sector of society, and only 10 percent from the bottom half. Perhaps even more troubling, the percentage of low-income students on some campuses has declined over the last decade. Ten years ago at the University of Virginia, for example, more than 10 percent of the students came from low-income households; today, less than 7 percent do. Many college campuses are becoming the province of the economic elite, where the very essence of the American Dream—that a child from a modest home can, by dint of hard work, climb as far as talent will take him or her—seems to be fading from view.
The effort by these three institutions to recruit more poor students is laudable, but it’s also like treating the symptom rather than the disease. The real problem is not that there are bus loads of qualified poor students every year who just decide to give Harvard a pass. It’s that there are far too few poor students who are even remotely prepared to attend Harvard. Stepping up the recruitment of poor students might create a more diverse campus and therefore benefit colleges and universities, as well as the lucky few poor students who attend them. But why don’t college presidents also talk publicly about the fact that so few poor students seem prepared to attend college, let alone an elite university? Better still, why not talk about what to do about that fact?
The failure of college and university presidents to speak out on this issue is symptomatic of a broader problem: These leaders are pretty much invisible in the public sphere and, most jarringly, in the debates and discussions about K12 education. To be sure, college presidents are busy people, with complicated institutions to guide and plenty of problems of their own. But they are also leaders in the larger enterprise of education, and they are in an unparalleled position to make a valuable contribution to the discussion of what should happen to students before they graduate from high school. Perhaps instead of just focusing on the bottom line, they should be thinking more about the broader picture.
Recruiting more poor students is beneficial to______.
选项
A、the realization of American Dream
B、the discussion about K-12 education
C、the creation of a diverse student body
D、the prestige of colleges and universities
答案
C
解析
根据第三段中的“Stepping up the recruitment of poor students might create a more diversecampus…”,C应为答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/uHzZ777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Thereisaconfusednotioninthemindsofmanypeoplethatthegatheringofthepropertyofthepoorintothehandsoftherich
Smoking,whichmaybeapleasureforsomepeople,isaserioussourceofdiscomforttotheirfellows.(1)_____,medicalauthorit
Somesaythatoneofthemaindifferencesbetweenscienceandphilosophyisthatsciencemakesprogresswhilephilosophersgoro
Somesaythatoneofthemaindifferencesbetweenscienceandphilosophyisthatsciencemakesprogresswhilephilosophersgoro
Accordingtothepassage,theAmericanhealth-caresystem______.In1980,theaveragecostofahospitalstaywas__
What’syourearliestchildhoodmemory?Canyourememberlearningtowalk?Ortalk?Thefirsttimeyouheardthunderorwatcheda
ArecentWoodyAllenmovieMidnightinParisdeliversaslightlychangedversionofafamousWilliamFaulknerquotation.Faulkne
[A]Butscientistsarestillworkingtoimproveonthat,andamongthemissocialpsychologistAldertVrijoftheUniversityofP
Thatpeoplehavepersonalitiesgoeswithoutsaying.Petownerswillquicklyarguethattheiranimalshavepersonalitiestoo.Yet
Thatpeoplehavepersonalitiesgoeswithoutsaying.Petownerswillquicklyarguethattheiranimalshavepersonalitiestoo.Yet
随机试题
具有补脾益肾固精作用的药物是( )
葡萄胎高危因素中不包括下列哪项
《刑法》规定,犯虚报注册资本罪的是()。
以下事项中,承包商能够提出利润索赔的是()。
监理单位与承建单位的关系是()。
甲有限责任公司为生产扩建的需要,向乙银行借款100万元,双方约定该笔借款用于生产扩建之用,经过相关的手续审核后,甲公司取得了该笔借款,但是并没有按照约定的用途使用该笔借款,而是用于发行债券,对此,乙银行采取的下列做法,不符合规定的是()。
儿童对勇敢和冒险不能分辨主要是他们抽象逻辑思维水平比较低的缘故。
下列生命活动需要消耗能量的是()。
古人写字,讲求一个“势”字,不仅指通篇的气势,更指每一笔的手势动作。把字写“活”,就是这个道理,有口气顶着,才能________字里的精气神,这便是“见字如见人”的所指。书写动作连贯,做到下笔不悔,________,才能气韵生动。填入画横线部分最恰当的一项
[*]
最新回复
(
0
)