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Mid-June, legions of New York City students are starting to shudder at the prospect of summer school: a sweaty month of math, re
Mid-June, legions of New York City students are starting to shudder at the prospect of summer school: a sweaty month of math, re
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2015-02-12
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Mid-June, legions of New York City students are starting to shudder at the prospect of summer school: a sweaty month of math, reading and writing drills that many view as a tedious waste of time.
Could they be right? Three years ago, the city had its hopes pinned on a vastly expanded summer school program as the latest most promising cure for its woebegone public schools.
It was Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani who pressured the Board of Education into ending "social promotion"—the longstanding practice of promoting students despite failing grades—and organizing the nation’s largest summer school program. It began in July 2000 and, in theory, the five-week summer sessions should by now have given a few hundred thousand students the extra push they needed to pass standardized tests and earn promotion to the next grade.
But as another school year ends and another mayor staggers under the burden of fixing the system, the idea of summer school as panacea seems to have fallen flat. Problems have plagued the program from the get-go, despite expensive attempts to solve them.
Absenteeism has hobbled the program each year, even though educators have tried everything from hunting down truants to rewarding students who show up, with pizza parties and movie tickets. Without a state law making summer school compulsory for failing students—which legislators have not pursued because of the potentially astronomical expense and the risk of angering parents who vote—a significant percentage of those who desperately need extra academic help will not take advantage of the program.
Even more troubling are the results of the 2000, 2001 and 2002 summer programs, which are decidedly mixed. In all three years, fewer than half of students who showed up for summer school passed the end-of-summer reading and math exams. For eighth graders, summer school has in fact seemed to do more harm than good: the report found that in 2000 and 2002, they scored much lower on the end-of-summer tests than they had on spring exams.
We can learn from the text that New York City schools______.
选项
A、have been having problems
B、are among the best in the world
C、require all students to attend summer school
D、are promising in their potential
答案
A
解析
属信息推断题。根据第二段的信息:“三年前,纽约市寄希望于大规模扩展的夏季学校计划,将其作为给一筹莫展的公立学校的最新、最有希望的良方。”由此断定,纽约市的公立学校一直以来受问题的困扰。
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