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It’s time for America to start following other countries’ leads when it comes to education, according to a new report by the Nat
It’s time for America to start following other countries’ leads when it comes to education, according to a new report by the Nat
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2015-03-25
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It’s time for America to start following other countries’ leads when it comes to education, according to a new report by the National Center on Education and the Economy(NCEE), an organization that researches education systems around the world. The report studied the overall education systems in Canada, China, Japan, and Singapore, discovering education achievement in the U. S. has fallen to the middle of the pack among developed nations, but said that America can solve this educational crisis by looking at it like it looked at manufacturing at the turn of the 20th century.
"We took the best ideas in
steelmaking, industrial chemicals
and many other fields from England and Germany and others and put them to work here on a scale that Europe could only imagine," the report says. By using the educational strategies of successful nations, NCEE says, the U. S. can catch up.
"The most effective way to greatly improve student performance in the United States is to figure out how the countries with top student performance are doing it, build on their achievements and then, by building on our unique strengths, figure out how to do it even better," Marc Tucker, NCEE’s CEO, said in a statement.
The report’s recommendation requiring students to pass tests at certain grade levels before continuing their education is likely to be controversial. Hypothetically, students would have to pass a " gateway test" at the end of middle school and again at the end of 10th grade in order to move on to the next grade. NCEE says gateway tests in other countries are well-designed, comprehensive, and standardized throughout the nation. "Because the exams are very high quality, they cannot be ’ test prepped;’ the only way to succeed on them is to actually master the material," NCEE says.
The report praises the new Common Core State Standards, a state-led initiative launched last year that set guidelines for student achievement in math and English and has been adopted in 42 states. But it also says America needs to go further by expanding the system to the rest of the core curriculum with subjects such as history and science. NCEE also worries that relying on computer-scored exams to provide readings on student achievement, which the Common Core does, is a gamble.
Other countries "are deeply skeptical that computer-scored tests or examinations can adequately measure the acquisition of the skills and knowledge they are most interested in," NCEE says. "If the United States is right about this, we will wind up with a significant advantage over our competitors in the accuracy, timeliness and cost of scoring. If we are wrong, we will significantly hamper our capacity to measure the things we are most interested in measuring. "
What’s the attitude of the new report towards American education?
选项
A、Pessimistic.
B、Optimistic.
C、Pthetic.
D、Anxious.
答案
B
解析
观点态度题。由题干关键词the new report定位到第一段。该段首句提到最新的报告指出,该是美国向其他国家学习教育经验的时候了,因为它已经落后于其他发达国家,处于中游位置了,但是报道也指出,美国可以解决这一教育危机,就像处于20世纪转折期的美国制造业一样,可见,该报道对美国的教育还是非常乐观的(optimistic),故[B]符合报道的态度,同时排除[A]“悲观的”,[C]“悲哀的”和[D]“担忧的”。
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