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Helping teachers to lift student achievement more effectively has become a major theme in US education. Most efforts that are no

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问题    Helping teachers to lift student achievement more effectively has become a major theme in US education. Most efforts that are now in their early stages or being planned focus either on building the skills of teachers already in the classroom or on retaining the best and dismissing the least effective performers. The question of who should actually teach and how the nation’ s schools might attract more young people from the top tier of college graduates, as part of a systematic effort to improve teaching in the United States, has received comparatively little attention.
   McKinsey’s experience with school systems in more than 50 countries suggests that this is an important gap in the US debate. In a new report, Closing the Talent Gap : Attracting and Retaining Top-Third Graduates to Careers in Teaching , we review the experiences of the world’s top-performing systems, in Finland, Singapore, and South Korea. These countries recruit 100 percent of their teacher corps from the top third of the academic cohort. Along with strong training and good working conditions, this extraordinary selectivity is part of an integrated system that promotes the prestige of teaching—and has achieved extraordinary results. In the United States, by contrast, only 23 percent of new teachers come from the top third, and just 14 percent of new teachers who come from the top third work in high-poverty schools, where attracting and retaining talented people is particularly difficult. The report asks what it would take to emulate nations that systematically recruit top students to teaching if the United States decided that it was worthwhile to do so.
   McKinsey’s survey of nearly 1,500 top-third US college students and current teachers, highlighted in the report, shows that a major effort would be needed to attract and retain the best students to teaching. The stakes are high: recent McKinsey research found that a persistent achievement gap between US students and those in top-performing nations imposes the economic equivalent of a permanent national recession.
   Research on whether the academic background of teachers is a useful predictor of classroom effectiveness has had mixed results, and no single reforjn can be depicted as a silver bullet. But the success of the best-performing national systems suggests that an effort to attract the country’s top students to teaching deserves serious examination as part of a comprehensive human-capital strategy for the US education system.
Which of the following statements is not true according to the second paragraph?
选项 A、American teachers are inferior to those of Finland, Singapore, or South Korea.
B、There are the world’s top-performing systems in teaching in Finland, Singapore, and South Korea.
C、The extraordinary selectivity in recruiting teachers is part of an integrated system that promotes the prestige of teaching.
D、In the United States, attracting and retaining talented people is particularly difficult in those high-poverty schools.
答案A
解析 此题为细节推断题。根据题干信息the second paragraph定位在第二段。该段第二句提到，“……我们研究了芬兰、新加坡和韩国等世界上表现优异的教学系统经验”，可知，排除B项；该段第四句提到，“除了……条件外，这种特异的用人选择性也是提高教学声望的整合系统努力的一部分……”，因此，排除C项；该段倒数第二句，“……，只有14％来自排名前三分之一高校的新老师在极度贫困的学校就职，像这样的学校，吸引并留住有才能的人是非常困难的”，可排除D项。在第二段中有提到，“这些国家(芬兰、新加坡和韩国)的教师100％出自在学业方面排名前三分之一的毕业生”，在倒数第二句又指出“在美国只有23％的新教师出自排名前三分之一的高校毕业生”。但这并不能说明，美国教师就一定比芬兰、新加坡或韩国的教师差。因此，此题A选项为正确答案。
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