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
医学
In the college-admissions wars, we parents are the true fighters. We are pushing our kids to get good grades, take SAT preparato
In the college-admissions wars, we parents are the true fighters. We are pushing our kids to get good grades, take SAT preparato
admin
2013-12-06
31
问题
In the college-admissions wars, we parents are the true fighters. 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(痴迷)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(歇斯底里)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(偶然). 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 college. 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.
What does Krueger study tell us?
选项
A、Getting into Ph.D. programs may be more competitive than getting into college.
B、Degrees of prestigious universities do not guarantee entry to graduate programs.
C、Graduates from prestigious universities do not care much about their GRE scores.
D、Connections built in prestigious universities may be sustained long after graduation.
答案
B
解析
Kruger的话的意思是:学生本身的高成绩可以使其进入高级的Ph.D学习班,但是各种等级的名校在这方面并不能起到作用。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/jgU3777K
本试题收录于:
医学博士外语题库考研分类
0
医学博士外语
考研
相关试题推荐
Imagineadiseasespreadingacrosstheglobe,killingmostlymiddle-agedpeopleorleavingthemchronicallydisabled.Thenoned
Cultureshockmightbecalledanoccupationaldiseaseofpeoplewhohavebeensuddenlytransplantedabroad.Likemostailments,
Peoplehaveworriedaboutsmogformanyyears,andthegovernmenthasspentbillionsofdollarstotrytocleanuptheairofbi
I’mintheunusualpositionofbeingbothacomputerscientistandaprofessionalmusician.Onthecomputerside,I’mbestkno
Englishspeakerspickuppitchintherighthemispheresoftheirbrains,butspeakersofcertainotherlanguagesperceiveiton
A、Thepersonlosesallself-worth.B、Thepersonpossessesnospirit.C、Thepersoncannotfunctionasapartofawhole.D、Allof
Wecannotlookdownuponouropponent,whoisanexperiencedswimmer.
Thisisthe______inwhichtheorganismlivesmosteffectively.
Twoequallybrilliantscientistsapplyforaprestigiousresearchfellowshipawardedbyatopscientificorganization.Oneiswh
随机试题
母猴带着小猴爬树也是教育。
______couldbejudgedfromhiseyes,hefeltterriblysorryforwhathehaddone.
Hefailedthetestmanytimes.______,hedidn’tstoptrying.
患者,男性,28岁,右颈上部淋巴结结核,下列何种药物对此患者治疗无效
债务人应当自收到支付令之日起15日内向债权人清偿债务,或者向人民法院提出口头异议。()
市场经济以市场作为资源配置的基础性手段,但它并不排斥国家对经济的宏观调控。()
已知一等差数列a1,21,a3,31,…,an,……,若ann=516,则该数列前n项的平均数是()。
根据决策过程的启发法,试论述如何成功推广一款定位于中高端的新饮料。(南京大学2017研)
Onlytwocountriesintheadvancedworldprovidenoguaranteeforpaidleavefromworktocareforanewbornchild.Lastspring
下列叙述中正确的是
最新回复
(
0
)