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
考研
Some publications that rank schools and colleges say they do it to promote accountability; others say they do it to provide info
Some publications that rank schools and colleges say they do it to promote accountability; others say they do it to provide info
admin
2016-10-15
19
问题
Some publications that rank schools and colleges say they do it to promote accountability; others say they do it to provide information to consumers. Those of us who work with students and parents have grave doubts about these motivations, doubts that were confirmed when The Wall Street Journal’ s reporter told one of us that "this type of story gets a lot of readers". Indeed. Our belief is that rankings exist not because they help, but because they sell.
The reality we see every day is that the choice of a college is a very personal matter, one that takes into account many different factors that all combine, sometimes mysteriously, into what we can only characterize as the right "fit. " Rankings never help us find that fit, for they misuse data in suggesting one can capture a general reality for all applicants, failing to understand the great differences we see between individual human beings trying to make sense of their own situations amid a wide array of options.
If there is any type of ranking to be developed, it can only be a personal one, done based on one’s own unique set of criteria. No one ranking "fits" all.
Far more important than where one goes to college is how well one engages with the opportunities afforded by that college, how much one learns at that college, and how well one is prepared for further study and adult life’s real challenges. Some highly ranked places turn out tragically wrong for students who manage to get in but find the burden of additional competition just too much to bear, while less-publicized colleges turn out to be powerfully positive places for young people we know.
Each year, especially in the selective, college-preparatory, tuition-conscious schools where we work, we see students and parents who are vulnerable to the rankings-driven reasoning that they must matriculate at a certain set of places; otherwise, goes the conventional wisdom, they will have failed at someone else’s notion of what constitutes early adult success.
We understand the desire to simplify the complex, to quantify the qualitative, to post a Top 10 or a ranking to satisfy the market-driven need to sell ad space an publications. But we reject doing so when it comes to colleges and schools. We who counsel young people and their parents would urge that such ratings and rankings concern matters of entertainment, not the educations of individual human beings who need more real help from the adults in their lives.
The author points out that the choice of a college for an applicant is______.
选项
A、a unique ranking of schools and colleges
B、consistent with his ideal and qualifications
C、a rational rather than an impulsive decision
D、based on a sensible analysis of many factors
答案
D
解析
根据第二段第一句“…the choice of a college is a very personal matter,one that takes intoaccount many different factors…”,D应为答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/WFoZ777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Inthefirstyearsofthe21stcentury,noareaoftheAmericaneconomyhasexcitedmoreemotionthanthepropertymarket.First
Mothersinterferewiththeirchildren’slivesevenmorethanmostoffspringrealize.Thattheynagabouteatinghabitsiswellk
OnAugust18thUSNews&WorldReportreleasedits2007rankingsofAmerica’stopcolleges.Thesurveybeganin1983asanunoff
ArecentcaseinAustraliashowshoweasilyfearcanfrustrateaninformant’sgoodintentions.InDecember,awomanwroteanonym
Somepeoplearefriendlydrunks,whereasothersarehostile,potentiallyposingadangertothemselvesandothers.Thedifferenc
Somepeoplearefriendlydrunks,whereasothersarehostile,potentiallyposingadangertothemselvesandothers.Thedifferenc
Somepeoplearefriendlydrunks,whereasothersarehostile,potentiallyposingadangertothemselvesandothers.Thedifferenc
Somepeoplearefriendlydrunks,whereasothersarehostile,potentiallyposingadangertothemselvesandothers.Thedifferenc
随机试题
北京市某高科技开发中心完成了一项“一种滑动轴承的制造方法”发明创造。这种方法的使用不仅可以提高轴承的使用质量,而且可以降低成本,提高产量。问题:这项研究成果可否申请实用新型专利?为什么?
增加细胞外液中Na+浓度时,单根神经纤维动作电位的幅度将
小儿造血的两个阶段是
下列病毒中,能引起潜伏感染的是A.甲型肝炎病毒B.狂犬病病毒C.单纯疱疹病毒D.流感病毒E.腮腺炎病毒
关于建设工程材料设备采购合同特点的说法,正确的有()。
正常情况下,下列属于5年保修期的是()。
在保险合同中,负有支付保险费义务的当事人是()。【2010年考试真题】
以下符合烟叶税规定的是()。
有以下程序main(){unsignedchara=2,b=4,c=5,d;d=a|b;d&=c;printf("%d\n",d);}程序运行后的输出结果是
【B1】【B10】
最新回复
(
0
)