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What is happening in the United States today is truly astonishing. In a society that prides itself on its preference for facts o
What is happening in the United States today is truly astonishing. In a society that prides itself on its preference for facts o
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2017-11-28
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What is happening in the United States today is truly astonishing. In a society that prides itself on its preference for facts over hearsay, on its openness to research, and on its respect for "expert" opinion, parents, educators, administrators, and legislators are ignoring the facts, the research, and the expert opinion about how young children learn and how best to teach them.
All across the country, educational programs intended for school-aged children are being appropriated for the education of young children. In some states (for example, New York, Connecticut, and Illinois) educational administrators are advocating that children enter school at age four. Many kindergarten programs have become full-day kindergartens, and nursery-school programs have become pre-kindergartens. Moreover, many of these kindergartens have introduced curricula, including work papers, once reserved for first-grade children. And in books addressed to parents a number of writers are encouraging parents to teach infants and young children reading, math, and science.
When we instruct children in academic subjects, or in swimming, gymnastics, or ballet, at too early an age, we miseducate them; we put them at risk for short-term stress and long-term personality damage for no useful purpose. There is no evidence that such early instruction has lasting benefits, and considerable evidence that it can do lasting harm.
Why, then, are we engaging in such unhealthy practices on so vast a scale? Like all social phenomena, the contemporary miseducation of large numbers of infants and young children derives from the coming together of multiple and complex social forces that both generate and justify these practices. One thing is sure: miseducation does not grow out of established knowledge about what is good pedagogy for infants and young children. Rather, the reasons must be sought in the changing values, size, structure, and style of American families, in the residue of the 1960s efforts to ensure equality of education for all groups, and in the new status, competitive, and computer pressures experienced by parents and educators in the eighties.
While miseducation has always been with us — we have always had pushy parents — today it has become a societal norm. If we do not wake up to the potential danger of these harmful practices, we may do serious damage to a large segment of the next generation.
What is happening in the United States today is truly astonishing because______.
选项
A、people prefer facts over hearsay
B、the Americans are open to research
C、the Americans respect expert opinions
D、many people are blind to facts, research and expert opinions
答案
D
解析
事实细节题。题干内容出现在第一段第一句:美国现如今发生的事着实令人诧异。第二句对此进行了解释:重事实轻谣传、对研究持开放态度、尊重专家的意见,这些向来是美国社会引以为豪的,但美国现今的家长、教育家、管理者和立法者却在忽视事实,忽视研究,忽视专家对于孩子如何学习和教育孩子最佳方式的意见。[D]项是对原文内容的同义转述,故为答案。
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