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
职业资格
In the college-admissions wars, we parents are the true fights. We are pushing our kids to get good grades, take SAT preparatory
In the college-admissions wars, we parents are the true fights. We are pushing our kids to get good grades, take SAT preparatory
admin
2017-03-25
31
问题
In the college-admissions wars, we parents are the true fights. We are pushing our kids to get good grades, take SAT preparatory courses and build resumes so they can get into the college of our first choice. I’ ve twice been to the wars, and as I survey the battlefield, something different is happening. We see our kids’ college background as a prize demonstrating how well we’ve raised them. But we can’t acknowledge that our obsession is more about us than them. So we’ve contrived various justifications that turn out to be half-truths, prejudices or myths. It actually doesn’t matter much whether Aaron and Nicole go to Stanford.
We have a full-blown prestige panic; we worry that there won’t be enough prizes to go around. Fearful parents urge their children to apply to more schools than ever. Underlying the hysteria is the belief that scarce elite degrees must be highly valuable. Their graduates must enjoy more success because they get a better education and develop better contacts. All that is plausible, and mostly wrong. We haven’t found any convincing evidence that selectivity or prestige matters. Selective schools don’t systematically employ better instructional approaches than less selective schools. On two measures—professors’ feedback and the number of essay exams—selective schools do slightly worse.
By some studies, selective schools do enhance their graduates’ lifetime earnings. The gain is reckoned at 2-4% for every 100-point increase in a school’s average SAT scores. But even this advantage is probably a statistical fluke. A well-known study examined students who got into highly selective schools and then went elsewhere. They earned just as much as graduates from higher-status schools.
Kids count more than their colleges. Getting into Yale may signify intelligence, talent and Ambition. But it’s not the only indicator and, paradoxically, its significance is declining. The reason: so many similar people go elsewhere. Getting into college is not life only competition. Old-boy networks are breaking down. Princeton economist Alan Krueger studied admissions to one top Ph.D. program. High scores, on the GRE helped explain who got in; degrees of prestigious universities didn’t.
So, parents, lighten up. The stakes have been vastly exaggerated. Up to a point, we can rationalize our pushiness. America is a competitive society; our kids need to adjust to that, but too much pushiness can be destructive. The very ambition we impose on our children may get some into Harvard but may also set them up for disappointment. One study found that, other things being equal, graduates of highly selective schools experienced more job dissatisfaction. They may have been so conditioned to being on top that anything less disappoints.
Why does the author say that parents are the true fighters in the college-admissions wars.
选项
A、They have the final say in which university their children are to attend.
B、They know best which universities are most suitable for their children.
C、They have to carry out intensive surveys of colleges before children make an application.
D、They care more about which college their children go to than the children themselves.
答案
D
解析
推断题。在大学入学这件事上,“We are pushing our kids to get good grades,take SAT preparatory courses and build resumes so they can get into the college of our first choice”,即家长为了孩子可以进他们为孩子选的学校,督促孩子拿高分、作简历等,可见家长比学生还要在意这些事情,故选D。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/In3v777K
本试题收录于:
英语学科知识与教学能力题库教师资格分类
0
英语学科知识与教学能力
教师资格
相关试题推荐
根据下列材料设计教学片段:(1)《义务教育历史课程标准(2011年版)》要求:讲述林则徐虎门销烟的故事;列举中英《南京条约》的主要内容,认识鸦片战争对中国近代社会的影响。(2)课文摘录:罪恶的鸦片走私受到中国抵制,英国政府决定发动侵略战
简述激发学生学习动机的主要途径。
“重农抑商”是中国古代历朝基本的经济政策。下列对这一政策相关的信息表述不正确的是()。
通过阅读以下材料,回答下列问题。某位教师在“两极格局的形成与崩溃”一课的教学设计中将三维教学目标设置为如下内容:知识与能力:培养学生对二战中与战后初期国际关系发展的基础认识,使学生记住两极格局对立的本质、杜鲁门主义、马歇尔计划、北约、华约组
恩格斯指出:“现在,它无疑是全部社会主义文献中传播最广和最具国际性的著作,是从西伯利亚起到加利福尼亚止的千百万工人的共同纲领。”材料中的“共同纲领”()。
英国历史学家汤因比认为:现代英国的官吏制度是仿照帝制中国的官吏制度而建立的,且中国的这种制度取得了很大的成功……鸦片战争时,在侵略中国的英国人心里,当时的制度是极为优越的,在经过各种议论后,通过考试选拔任用行政官员的制度在英国已经广泛普及了。从材料中获取的
材料:下面是某教师讲授《香港和澳门回归》一课的教学课程。教师悬挂《中华人民共和国政区图》,醒目地标注香港、澳门的位置,播放“香港回归”的视频,用多媒体呈现香港和澳门的区旗、区徽。接着要求学生结合教科书,在“是什么,怎么样”的答问形式上,
设计任务:请阅读下面学生信息和语言素材,设计一节课的教学方案。教案没有固定格式,但须包含下列要点:teachingobjectivesteachingcontentskeyanddifficultpoints
Atahigherlevelofwriting,whichofthefollowingcognitive,skillsshouldNOTencouraged?
WhichofthefollowingmaterialsisNOTappropriateforateachertouseinlisteningpractice?
随机试题
学校教育主导作用有效发挥的条件:受教育者的()性与()发展规律;()自身状况;()和环境的因素;()发展状况。
冯·诺依曼计算机工作原理核心是________和“程序控制”。
A、冷测患牙反应同对照牙B、冷水进入洞内患牙敏感C、冷测患牙反应为一过性敏感D、冷测患牙反应为敏感E、冷测患牙无反应牙髓坏死患牙
诊断子宫内膜结核的可靠依据是
建筑施工图包括()。
高速公路在桥头段软土地基上采用高填方路基,路基平均宽度30m,路基自重及路面荷载传至路基底面的均布荷载为120kPa,地基土均匀,平均Es=6MPa,沉降计算压缩层厚度按24m考虑,沉降计算修正系数取1.2,桥头路基的最终沉降量最接近?()[200
【建设银行】建没银行某支行2011年年末的负债总数为20亿元,这属于()
画家甲丧偶后,独自抚养儿子乙,某日,甲将自己的一幅画交给朋友丙保管,嘱托丙待自己去世后烧毁该画作。甲去世后,丙违背甲的嘱托,将画作交拍卖公司拍卖,得款50万元。该50万元应当()。(2020一专一24)
100BASE-FX标准使用多模光纤,光纤的最大长度为(30)。
Collegerankingsaredead!Longlivecollegerankings!Atameetingofthecountry’sleadingliberalartsschoolsthisweekinA
最新回复
(
0
)