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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.
What is the author’s attitude towards American education system?
选项 A、factual.
B、critical.
C、indifferent.
D、approval.
答案B
解析 此题为观点态度题。作者在第一段指出：美国为提高学生成绩的大多数努力都尚处于初始阶段(注重培养现任老师的能力，注重留住最佳人才，并且淘汰绩效最差者)，然后在最后一句强调，“但是关于哪些人应该来教学，全国学校如何吸引更多来自顶级大学的年轻毕业生的问题，作为提高美国教学质量的系统努力的一部分，却没有接收到足够的重视”；由第三段第二句“美国学生与那些在教育方面表现最为出色的国家的学生之间的学业差距，对国家在经济方面的持久衰退产生了同等的影响”可知，目前的教育问题已影响到了美国经济的发展；在最后一段第二句作者重申“吸引国家优等生教学值得美国去认真思考”。综上所述，作者在文章中对目前美国教育系统的态度是批判的。因此，B选项为正确答案。
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