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Three weeks ago, the school system in Alexandria, Va. , announced that 80% of the students who were about to graduate from T. C.
Three weeks ago, the school system in Alexandria, Va. , announced that 80% of the students who were about to graduate from T. C.
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2013-04-15
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Three weeks ago, the school system in Alexandria, Va. , announced that 80% of the students who were about to graduate from T. C. Williams High School would be going on to college. That’s an impressive statistic. But when one looks at just what "going on to college" means nowadays — and what it will mean a couple of years from now we might do well to restrain our applause. In fact, it seemed to me that many of our staff endeavor to send as many warm bodies as they could on to higher education regardless of whether the students had the skills or motivation to do elementary high school work. High schools like mine, always eager for good press, can boast that they have prepared an ever greater percentage of their charges to move on to the halls of academe. And though colleges blame us in the high schools for sending them kids who are totally unprepared, they casually pocket the tuition from such students lest they have to downsize and lay off professors and administrators.
While T. C. Williams boasts about the 80% going on to college, it makes no effort to track what happens to these kids. Nor does it ask another important question which is not how many make it through to a traditional college diploma, but how many need to? In a paper about to be released by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation: "Work and Workers for the 21st Century", it is pointed out that in 2018 as is the case today--two of three jobs in America will not require either a bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or an associate degree from a community college.
And yet we educators and most parents- keep giving all kids the impression that without a college degree, they will be on a slippery slope to being forgotten and poor. In fact, for the majority of jobs, what will be needed even more than the subject matter we teachers think is so essential will be what are called soft skills. The report "Are They Really Ready to Work." put out by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills and the Society for Human Resource Management, found that the four skills most prized by employers were a work ethic, an ability to collaborate with others, facility in oral communication and social responsibility. "Other than writing and reading English, no academic courses (including mathematics) make the top 10".
And that’s good news for those thousands of students who graduated from high schools across America this month and are honestly wondering to themselves whether the encouragement of their teachers notwithstanding - the pursuit of a traditional college degree is the right next move toward a satisfying future.
Educators and most parents give children the impression that______.
选项
A、they will still achieve success even if they don’t have college degree
B、they are likely to be poor and forgotten if they don’t have college degree
C、they can manage to get rid of poverty without getting college degree
D、they can learn how to be successful if they go to study in college
答案
B
解析
事实细节题。由定位句可知,老师和家长总是给孩子一种印象:没有大学学历他们就会被社会遗忘并生活贫困。原旬中的slippery slope是一个比喻的说法,滑坡意味着很可能坠入某种状态,和B选项中的be likely to意思相近。因此B)是本题答案。A)“即使没有大学学历他们也能成功”、C)“没有大学学历他们也能设法摆脱贫困”和原文意思相反,故排除;D)“如果进入大学学习他们就能够学到如何才能成功”并未在原文中出现,故排除。
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