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Homework has never been terribly popular with students and even many parents, but in recent years it has been particularly scorn
Homework has never been terribly popular with students and even many parents, but in recent years it has been particularly scorn
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2012-09-11
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问题
Homework has never been terribly popular with students and even many parents, but in recent years it has been particularly scorned. School districts across the country, most recently Los Angeles Unified, are revising their thinking on this educational ritual. Unfortunately, L. A. Unified has produced an inflexible policy which mandates that with the exception of some advanced courses, homework may no longer count for more than 10% of a student’ s academic grade.
This rule is meant to address the difficulty that students from impoverished or chaotic homes might have in completing their homework. But the policy is unclear and contradictory. Certainly, no homework should be assigned that students cannot complete on their own or that they cannot do without expensive equipment. But if the district is essentially giving a pass to students who do not do their homework because of complicated family lives, it is going riskily close to the implication that standards need to be lowered for poor children.
District administrators say that homework will still be a part of schooling; teachers are allowed to assign as much of it as they want. But with homework counting for no more than 10% of their grades, students can easily skip half their homework and see very little difference on their report cards. Some students might do well on state tests without completing their homework, but what about the students who performed well on the tests and did their homework? It is quite possible that the homework helped. Yet rather than empowering teachers to find what works best for their students, the policy imposes a fiat, across-the-board rule.
At the same time, the policy addresses none of the truly thorny questions about homework. If the district finds homework to be unimportant to its students’ academic achievement, it should move to reduce or eliminate the assignments, not make them count for almost nothing. Conversely, if homework matters, it should account for a significant portion of the grade. Meanwhile, this policy does nothing to ensure that the homework students receive is meaningful or appropriate to their age and the subject, or that teachers are not assigning more than they are willing to review and correct.
The homework rules should be put on hold while the school board ,which is responsible for setting educational policy, looks into the matter and conducts public hearings. It is not too late for L. A. Unified to do homework right.
A suitable title for this text could be ______.
选项
A、A Faulty Approach to Homework
B、A Welcomed Policy for Poor Students
C、Thorny Questions about Homework
D、Wrong Interpretations of an Educational Policy
答案
A
解析
主旨题。文章首段通过指出家庭作业的弊病以及美国各学区对此做出的努力,引出L. A. Unified针对家庭作业所制定的政策。接着第二、三和四段分析了这项政策的缺陷,末段指出L. A. unified应该调整该政策。全文围绕L. A. Unified针对家庭作业制定的政策展开,主要讨论这项政策的缺点。因此A项“一项针对家庭作业的错误政策”最适合充当文章的标题。approach本意是“接近,靠近;方法”,它引申出来就是“政策,策略”的意思,与文章中的policy内涵一致。
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