首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Throughout the nation’s more than 15,000 school districts, widely differing approaches to teaching science and math have emerged
Throughout the nation’s more than 15,000 school districts, widely differing approaches to teaching science and math have emerged
admin
2018-06-06
69
问题
Throughout the nation’s more than 15,000 school districts, widely differing approaches to teaching science and math have emerged. Though there can be strength in diversity, a new international analysis suggests that this variability has instead contributed to lackluster achievement scores by US children relative to their peers in other developed countries.
Indeed, concludes William H. Schmidt of Michigan State University, who led the new analysis, "no single intellectually coherent vision dominates US educational practice in math or science." The reason, he said, "is because the system is deeply and fundamentally flawed." The new analysis, released this week by the National Science Foundation in Arlington, Va., is based on data collected from about 50 nations as part of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study. Not only do approaches to teaching science and math vary among individual US communities, the report finds, but there appears to be little strategic focus within a school district’s curricula, its textbooks, or its teachers’ activities. This contrasts sharply with the coordinated national programs of most other countries.
On average, US students study more topics within science and math than their international counterparts do. This creates an educational environment that "is a mile wide and an inch deep", Schmidt notes. For instance, eighth graders in the United States cover about 33 topics in math versus just 19 in Japan. Among science courses, the international gap is even wider. US curricula for this age level resemble those of a small group of countries including Australia, Thailand, Iceland, and Bulgaria. Schmidt asks whether the United States wants to be classed with these nations, whose educational systems "share our pattern of splintered visions" but which are not economic leaders.
"The new report couldn’t come at a better time," says Gerald Wheeler, executive director of the National Science Teachers Association in Arlington. "The new National Science Education Standards provide that focused vision," including the call "to do less, but in greater depth."
Implementing the new science standards and their math counterparts will be the challenge, he and Schmidt agree, because the decentralized responsibility for education in the United States requires that any reforms be tailored and instituted one community at a time. In fact, Schmidt argues, reforms such as these proposed national standards "face an almost impossible task, because even though they are intellectually coherent, each becomes only one more voice in the babble."
The new National Science Education Standards propose______.
选项
A、to centralize decentralized school districts
B、to provide greater depth to school science education
C、to focus the strategy within school district’s curricula, textbooks, or teachers’ activities should be clarified and unified
D、to provide more money to fund the pedagogical research and the teachers training
答案
B
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/7bSO777K
本试题收录于:
NAETI中级口译笔试题库外语翻译证书(NAETI)分类
0
NAETI中级口译笔试
外语翻译证书(NAETI)
相关试题推荐
ThehappiestpeopleintheworldmayliveinScandinavia,anewstudysuggests.That’saccordingtotheUnitedNationsGeneralA
ThehappiestpeopleintheworldmayliveinScandinavia,anewstudysuggests.That’saccordingtotheUnitedNationsGeneralA
ThehappiestpeopleintheworldmayliveinScandinavia,anewstudysuggests.That’saccordingtotheUnitedNationsGeneralA
ThehappiestpeopleintheworldmayliveinScandinavia,anewstudysuggests.That’saccordingtotheUnitedNationsGeneralA
ThehappiestpeopleintheworldmayliveinScandinavia,anewstudysuggests.That’saccordingtotheUnitedNationsGeneralA
ThehappiestpeopleintheworldmayliveinScandinavia,anewstudysuggests.That’saccordingtotheUnitedNationsGeneralA
Chinaisthetopsourcecountryofinternationalstudentsintheworld.Recentstatisticshaveshowna【C1】______trendforChine
Chinaisthetopsourcecountryofinternationalstudentsintheworld.Recentstatisticshaveshowna【C1】______trendforChine
ThegeneralmanagerdemandedthejobwillbecompletedbeforetheSpringFestivalholidays.
Forsomepeople,thelightofhumanattentionhasanunbearablebrilliance.Likeivyalongthedimedgeofagarden,theyprefer
随机试题
外部评估活动的监控要求反映在
A.青光眼B.阵发性室上性心动过速C.有机磷酸酯类中毒D.琥珀胆碱过量中毒E.房室传导阻滞新斯的明可治疗
无动性缄默症
由于受到某强烈地震影响,某期货公司房屋、设备遭到严重损坏,无法继续进行期货业务,现不得不申请停业,根据该事实情况,依据《期货公司管理办法》回答以下问题:
下列各项中,关于政府补助表述正确的是()。
()是指人们的正常生活受到严重影响,但尚未达到危及生命的状况。
在资本主义条件下,劳动从进入生产过程开始已经隶属于资本。随着资本主义经济的大发展,机器工业体系的建立,劳动对资本的隶属关系是()
PricePlanningApricerepresentsthevalueofagoodsorserviceforboththesellerandthebuyer.Priceplanningissyst
Wewalkedsoquietlythatthenurseatthedeskdidn’tevenlifthereyesfromthebook.Mumpointedtoabigchairbythedoor
Industrialpsychologyistheapplicationofvariouspsychologicaltechniquestotheselectionandtrainingofindustrialworkers
最新回复
(
0
)