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There is something badly wrong with the way standards for school science being set in the US. When the Texas State Board of Educ
There is something badly wrong with the way standards for school science being set in the US. When the Texas State Board of Educ
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2010-12-04
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问题
There is something badly wrong with the way standards for school science being set in the US. When the Texas State Board of Education voted in new standards last week, it left the door open for teaching creationism (特创论) in the name of science in federally funded schools. These must be closed, and quickly.
Because standards are set at state level, students in one state might be learning different science and using different textbooks from what students in another are learning and using. What is worse, the state boards of education that are responsible for standards and textbooks are made up of elected officials who lack any specific skills or qualifications in the relevant areas of science or education. As we saw in the 2005 trial over teaching intelligent design in Dover, Pennsylvania, and are now seeing in Texas, school boards have become a political battleground. Many board members appear to Ne acting on behalf of religious groups like local churches or the Discovery Institute.
School science standards should be set by people who understand science and science education. At the same time, it is dangerous to argue that the powers of democratically elected officials should be taken away if they don’t produce the outcome you want. Yet that is what may happen in Texas. Some Democrats have introduced legislation that would transfer authority for textbooks and curricula to the Texas Education Agency.
Is there a way out of this impasse? One possibility is that candidates for school boards should be tested before they stand. Another is for the pro-science (支持科学者) try to engage more fully with the democratic process. After the Dover trial, board members who favored intelligent design were dumped by the voters. Something similar could happen in Texas.
Another possibility is to push decisions further up the democratic ladder. President Barack Obama has already called for all states to have the same achievement standards, raising hopes that he might push for federal standards across all US schools. While this might drive conservative mad, it would put an end to the present situation in which an accident of geography can determine whether a child is taught valid science.
Obama has already made remarkable changes in Washington by restoring scientific expertise to its rightful place in government. Many teachers and scientists would like to see him do the same in the place where it can count most: in the classroom.
What is Obama’s action to make democratic decisions’?
选项
A、He climbs up a ladder to make the decisions heard by everyone.
B、He appeals to every state to have the same standards to value performances.
C、He will stop the current measurement about the teaching of valid science.
D、He will try to drive those conservatives mad by changing policies.
答案
B
解析
细节推断题。根据上下文可知,本段是在讲解决问题可能采取的第二种方法,即让决策过程更加民主化。为了做到这一点,奥巴马总统已经号召全国各州的学校实行统一的成绩衡量标准,因此B)“他呼吁各州采用统一的标准衡量成绩”是正确答案。
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