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Last year the nation’s best-known business consulting firm ran an international survey to try to determine why certain countries
Last year the nation’s best-known business consulting firm ran an international survey to try to determine why certain countries
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2019-08-01
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问题
Last year the nation’s best-known business consulting firm ran an international survey to try to determine why certain countries—like Canada, Finland, Japan, Singapore and South Korea—seem to have the best schools. The answer came back, somewhat unsurprisingly, that these countries have the best teachers; educators who are respected, rewarded, and held accountable for their performance in the classroom.
This may seem obvious, but you would never have guessed watching the Democratic debate in Las Vegas the week before Thanksgiving. All the candidates give lip service to the importance of education to the nation’s future. And it goes without saying that accountability is the key to performance in any job. Yet when John Roberts of CNN asked the candidates if school boards should be able to reward teachers or fire them based on performance, all the Democrats headed for the hills, hemming and hawing and obfuscating their answers.
What’s going on here? In short, the power of the teachers’ unions. The National Education Association is a big hitter in the Democratic Party. The NEA is all about job security, so you won’t find Democrats leading crusades to weed out bad teachers. The Republicans don’t do much better. They say they are reluctant to meddle in local school governance and instead push for vouchers so kids can go to private or parochial schools.
In New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg hired Joel Klein, a former Justice Department antitrust chief in the Clinton administration, to run the city’s chaotic schools. Klein managed to get a third of the school principals to sign an agreement that would allow them to be terminated for cause. And he got the teachers’ union to agree to give up this absurd privilege: in New York, for many years, teachers with seniority could show up at any school they wanted and teach there, shoving aside teachers with less seniority. Klein won the right to stop low-performing senior teachers from exercising this
droit du seigneur
. Some of them just went home rather than teaching wherever they wanted to—and were still paid in full. That doesn’t sound like an enormous step toward teacher accountability, but it was a struggle for New York to extract even these comparatively modest concessions from the teachers’ union, and it shows how far there is to go. Teacher accountability is at the heart of true education reform. If only the presidential candidates would even dare to discuss the problem.
According to the text,what is the essential quality for teachers?
选项
A、Capability.
B、Credibility.
C、Punctuality.
D、Responsibility.
答案
D
解析
推断题。第二段第三句提到民主党候选人认为责任心是做好任何工作的关键。本文最后一段倒数第二句也提到教师的责任心才是教育改革的真正核心。[A]“能力”、[B]“诚信”、[C]“守时”固然是教师应具备的素质,但不符合本处语境,故排除。因此[D]“责任心”为答案。
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考研英语一
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