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Home-schooling is on the rise in recent years all over America. So there is certainly an ideological (意识形态的)edge to many home-sc
Home-schooling is on the rise in recent years all over America. So there is certainly an ideological (意识形态的)edge to many home-sc
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2009-09-12
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Home-schooling is on the rise in recent years all over America. So there is certainly an ideological (意识形态的)edge to many home-schoolers. But do not be misled. First, this is a bottom-up movement with parents of whatever political stripe making individual decisions to withdraw their children rather than following orders from higher up. Second, the movement has a utilitarian (功利主义的) edge.
Home-schoolers simply believe that they can offer their children better education at home. One-to-one tuition, goes the argument, enables children to go at their own pace, rather than at a pace set for the convenience of teaching unions. And children can be taught "proper" subjects based on the Judeo-Christian tradition of learning, rather than politically correct flimflam (胡说). This sounds backward-looking, but home-schoolers claim that technology is on their side. The internet is making it ever easier to teach people at home, ever more teaching materials are available, and virtual communities now exist that allow home-schoolers to interchange information.
The other factor working in home-schooling’s favor is its own success. Many parents have been nervous about home-schooled children being isolated. With almost every town in America now boasting its own home-schooling network, that worry declines. Home-schooled children can play baseball with other home-schooled children; they can go on school trips; and so on.
What about academic standards? The home-schooling network buzzes with good news: a family with three home-schooled children at Harvard; a home-schooler with a bestselling novel; first, second and third place in the 2000 National Spelling Bee; a first university for home-schooled children. Systematic evidence is more difficult to find.
There are certainly signs that home-schoolers are thriving. One recent survey by the HSLDA showed that three-quarters of home-educated adults aged 18-24 have taken college-level courses compared with 46% of the general population. But this is hardly conclusive. Home-schoolers do not have to report bad results. Moreover, home-schoolers may simply come from the more educated part of the population.
Yet these arguments point to change in the way the debate is unfolding. It is no longer about whether home-schooled children are losing out, but whether they are doing unfairly well. "Maybe we should subcontract all of public education to home-schoolers," Bill Bennett, Mr. Reagan’s education secretary, once made fun of it. That looks unlikely. But America’s home-schoolers represent an attack on public education that teachers everywhere should pay attention to.
选项
A、are better educated than before
B、are freed from their career to teach their children
C、are willing to educate their children themselves
D、are afraid their children would be harmed by school crimes
答案
C
解析
由题干中的rising定位到原文首段首句Home-schooling is on the rise in recent years all over America。[精析] 原文首段定位句下文解释说,首先,这是一个自下而上的运动,不论家长的政治派别是什么,他们自主决定把孩子放在家里教育,而不是听从上面的命令这样做。这说明在家学习的学生越来越多的原因不是家长受别人逼迫,而是他们乐意自己教育孩子。故C)“越来越多的家长乐意自己教育自己的孩子”与之相符,为正确答案。[排除干扰] A)“越来越多的家长受到更好的教育”,下文说可能存在这样的情况,但只是推测;B)“越来越多的家长辞职以教育自己的孩子”和D)“越来越多的家长担心自己的孩子会受校园犯罪灼伤害”在原文均没有涉及,故都排除。
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