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
Carmen Arace Middle School is situated in the pastoral town of Bloomfield, Conn. , but four years ago it faced many of the same
Carmen Arace Middle School is situated in the pastoral town of Bloomfield, Conn. , but four years ago it faced many of the same
admin
2017-06-29
36
问题
Carmen Arace Middle School is situated in the pastoral town of Bloomfield, Conn. , but four years ago it faced many of the same challenges as inner-city schools in nearby Hartford: low scores on standardized tests, dropping enrollment and high rates of detention. Then the school’s hard-driving principal, Delores Bolton, persuaded her board to shake up the place by buying a laptop computer for each student and teacher to use, in school and at home. For good measure, the board provided wireless Internet access at school. Total cost: $2. 5 million.
Now, an hour before classes start, every seat in the library is taken by students eager to get online. Fifth-grade teacher Jen Friday talks about sedimentary rocks as students view them at a colorful website. After school, students on buses pull laptops from backpacks to get started on homework. Since the computers arrived, enrollment is up 20%. Disciplinary suspensions are down 80%. Scores on state achievement tests are up 35%. Bolton, who is black, is proud to run "a school with 90% black enrollment that is on the cutting edge. "
Indeed, school systems in rural Maine and New York City are eager to follow Arace Middle School’s example. Governor Angus King has proposed using $50 million from an unexpected budget surplus to buy a laptop for all of Maine’s 17, 000 seventh-graders — and for new seventh-graders each fall. The funds would create a permanent endowment whose interest would help buy the computers. The plan, scaled back to $ 30 million in a compromise with the legislature, is scheduled to be voted on this week.
In the same spirit, the New York City board of education voted unanimously on April 12 to create a school Internet portal, which would make money by selling ads and licensing e-commerce sites. The portal will also provide e-mail service for the city’s 1.1 million public school students. Profits will be used to buy laptops for each of the school system’s 87, 000 fourth-graders. Within nine years, all students in grades 4 and higher will have their own computers.
Back in Bloomfield, the school board is seeking federal grant money to expand its laptop program to high school students. In the meantime, most of the kinks have been worked out. Some students were using their computers to goof off or visit unauthorized websites. But teachers have the ability to track where students have been on the Web and to restrict them. "That is the worst when they disable you," says eighth-grade honors student Jamie Bassell. "You go through laptop withdrawal. " The habit is rubbing off on parents. "I taught my mom to use e-mail," says another eighth-grader, Katherine Hypolite. "And now she’s taking computer classes. I’m so proud of her!"
By introducing the laptop program, Delore Bolton has______.
选项
A、shaken the beliefs of both teachers’ and students’
B、witnessed a remarkable improvement in enrollment and students’ test scores
C、found herself followers all over the country
D、revolutionized class-room teaching in public schools
答案
B
解析
细节题。第一段里的shake up the place指她的提议在当地引起了震动,第二段就以具体数字说明学生入学率增加和测试成绩提高的事实。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/CrFO777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
Insteadofbeingsituatedatafixedcampus,theCityUniversityconductsclassesatvarioussitesdeemedconvenienttostudents.
Duringthepastgeneration,theAmericanmiddle-classfamilythatoncecouldcountonhardworkandfairplaytokeepitselffin
Duringthepastgeneration,theAmericanmiddle-classfamilythatoncecouldcountonhardworkandfairplaytokeepitselffin
Inthecat-and-mousemaneuveringoveradmissiontoprestigiouscollegesanduniversities,【M1】thousandsofhighschoolshavesimp
Inthecat-and-mousemaneuveringoveradmissiontoprestigiouscollegesanduniversities,【M1】thousandsofhighschoolshavesimp
Inthecat-and-mousemaneuveringoveradmissiontoprestigiouscollegesanduniversities,【M1】thousandsofhighschoolshavesimp
Inthecat-and-mousemaneuveringoveradmissiontoprestigiouscollegesanduniversities,【M1】thousandsofhighschoolshavesimp
Hephonedhisunclewholivedinthecountry,askinghimto_____histwoschoolmatesfortheweekend.
Homeschoolingappearstobeagreatsuccessformiddle-classandwealthyfamilieswhenoneparentishomemostofthetime.How
随机试题
A.地尔硫革(硫氮酮)B.洋地黄C.胺碘酮D.利多卡因下列疾病时宜选择的治疗药物为:急性前壁心肌梗死并发加速性室性自主律
既能退虚热,又可凉血的药物是()
传媒业界认为:中国杂志业存在巨大发展空间的根本原因在于正在_________的中产阶级及他们多元化的生活方式将_________大量细分杂志。填入画横线部分最恰当的一项是:
注意事项1.本题本由给定资料与作答要求两部分构成。总分100分,考试时限为150分钟。其中,阅读给定资料参考时限为40分钟,作答参考时限为110分钟。2.请在题本、答题卡指定位置上用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔填写自己的姓名和准考证号,并用2
弱势群体
LifetimeEmploymentinJapaneseCompaniesInmostlargeJapanesecompanies,thereisapolicyoflifetimeemployment.Whatt
Manyphrasesusedtodescribemonetarypolicy,suchas"steeringtheeconomytoasoftlanding"or"atouchonthebrakes",mak
Thebiggestproblemwiththecomputeristhat
NARRATIVE:ANECDOTE::
EarlyinthefilmABeautifulMind,the【C1】________JohnNashisseensittinginaPrincetoncourtyard,hunchedoveraplayingb
最新回复
(
0
)