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While the mission of public schools has expanded beyond education to include social support and extra-curricular activities, the
While the mission of public schools has expanded beyond education to include social support and extra-curricular activities, the
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2022-11-25
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While the mission of public schools has expanded beyond education to include social support and extra-curricular activities, the academic schedule has changed little in more than a century.
Reclaiming the school day for academic instruction and escaping the time-bound traditions of education are vital steps in the school-reform process, says a report released today by the National Education Commission on Time and Learning.
The commission’s report, titled "Prisoners of Time," calls the fixed clock and calendar in American education a "fundamental design flaw" in desperate need of change. "Time should serve children instead of children serving time," the report says.
The two-year commission found that holding American students to "world-class standards," will require more time for classroom instruction. "We have been asking the impossible of our students—that they learn as much as their foreign peers while spending half as much as in core academic subjects," it states.
The Commission compared the relationships between time and learning in Japan, Germany, and the United States and found that American students receive less than half the basic academic instruction that Japanese and German students are provided. On average, American students can earn a high school diploma if they spend only 41 percent of their school time on academics, says the report.
American students spend an average of three hours a day on "core" academics such as English, math, science, and history, the commission found. Their report recommends offering a minimum of 5.5 hours of academics every school day.
The nine-member commission also recommends lengthening the school day beyond the traditional six hours.
"If schools want to continue offering important activities outside the academic core, as well as serving as a hub for family and community services, they should keep school doors open longer each day and each year," says John Hodge Jones, director of schools in Murfreesboro, Term., and chairman of the commission.
The typical school year in American public schools is 180 days. Eleven states allow school years of 175 days or less, and only one state requires more than 180 day.
"For over a decade, education reform advocates have been working feverishly to improve our schools," says Milton Goldberg, executive director of the commission. "But… if reform is to truly take hold, the six-hour, 180-day school year should be put in museums—an exhibit from our education past."
It can be learned that schools in the United States ________.
选项
A、refuse to provide important outside-academic activities
B、serve social units such as family and community
C、arrange five-hour teaching and learning every day
D、have competition with schools of other countries
答案
B
解析
根据题干中的关键词schools in the United States可以将范围缩小到第六至第十段。其中第六、第七段提到美国应该要延长学术课程学习时间和学生每天的在校时间,第八段John Hodge Jones也表达了这个意思,并说明了这样做的目的和条件,If从句中的continue offering…as well as serving as a hub for…表明。学校之前就是家庭和社区服务的中心,由此可知B项正确。A项中的important outside-academic activities出现在第八段的If从句中,根据continue offering可知,这种活动是由学校举办的,A项中的refuse与原文不符。第六段第二句建议提供至少5. 5小时的学术课程学习时间,可推断学校现在的学术课程学习时间少于5. 5小时,但少于5. 5小时未必就是5小时,因此排除C项。文中提到调查组比较了美国、日本和德国的教育状况,这就容易使考生产生错觉,认为美国要与别国在教育上竞争,看谁最好,但是文中并没有提到美国在教育上和别国竞争,故D项错误。
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