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Education in most of the developing world is shocking. Half of children in South Asia and a third of those in Africa who complet
Education in most of the developing world is shocking. Half of children in South Asia and a third of those in Africa who complet
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2016-03-08
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Education in most of the developing world is shocking. Half of children in South Asia and a third of those in Africa who complete four years of schooling cannot read properly. Most governments have promised to provide universal primary education and to promote secondary education. But even when public schools exist, they often fail.
The failure of state education, combined with the shift in emerging economies from farming to jobs that need at least a modicum(少量)of education, has caused a private-school boom. According to the World Bank, across the developing world a fifth of primary-school pupils are enrolled in private schools, twice as many as 20 years ago. So many private schools are unregistered that the real figure is likely to be much higher.
By and large, politicians and educationalists are unenthusiastic. Governments see education as the state’s job. NGOs tend to be ideologically opposed to the private sector. The U. N. special rapporteur(报告人)on education, Kishore Singh, has said that "for-profit education should not be allowed in order to safeguard the noble cause of education".
This attitude harms those whom educationalists claim to serve: children. The boom in private education is excellent news for them and their countries, for three reasons.
First, it is bringing in money—not just from parents, but also from investors, some in search of a profit. Most private schools in the developing world are single operators that charge a few dollars a month, but chains are now emerging.
Second, private schools are often better value for money than state ones. Measuring this is hard, since the children who go to private schools tend to be better off, and therefore likely to perform better. But a rigorous four-year study of 6,000 pupils in Andhra Pradesh, in southern India, suggested that private pupils performed better in English and Hindi than public-school pupils, and the private schools achieved these results at a third of the cost of the public schools.
Lastly, private schools are innovative. Since technology has great(though as yet mostly unrealized)potential in education, this could be important. Bridge gives teachers tablets linked to a central system that provides teaching materials and monitors their work. Such robo-teaching may not be ideal, but it is better than lessons without either materials or monitoring.
The private sector has problems. But the alternative is often a public school that is worse—or no school at all. The growth of private schools is a manifestation of the healthiest of instincts: parents’ desire to do the best for their children. Governments should therefore be asking not how to discourage private education, but how to boost it. Ideally, they would subsidize(以津贴补助)private schools, preferably through a voucher(凭证)which parents could spend at the school of their choice and top up: they would regulate schools to ensure quality: they would run public exams to help parents make informed choices.
What does the author think of the private education?
选项
A、It meets the need of social development.
B、It should be suspended and reorganized.
C、It should not purely run after high profits.
D、It is encouraged to replace public education.
答案
A
解析
推理判断题。定位句指出,私立学校的蓬勃发展对于孩子和国家都是个好消息,虽然存在着问题,但是它总比更加糟糕的公立学校或是没有学校上要好得多,故A)概括最为准确,为正确答案。B)“它应该被暂停和重新组建”,从定位句可以看出,虽然承认私立学校存在问题,但作者对其的基本看法是肯定和支持的,故可排除;C)“它不应该单纯地逐利”,对私立学校逐利性的批评是政府和一个非政府组织的态度,而非作者的看法,故可排除;D)“应鼓励它取代公立学校”,作者虽然认为私立学校在很多方面优胜于公立学校,并呼吁政府予以扶持,但并没有提出它应该取代公立学校,故可排除。
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