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To Help the Kids, Parents Go Back to School [A] For a few years now, every parent of a newborn baby in the South Florida distric
To Help the Kids, Parents Go Back to School [A] For a few years now, every parent of a newborn baby in the South Florida distric
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2017-06-27
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To Help the Kids, Parents Go Back to School
[A] For a few years now, every parent of a newborn baby in the South Florida district has received a congratulations packet while still in the hospital that includes, among other things, a colorful animal picture book (in three languages) and a letter from something called the Parent Academy. "Keep in mind that you are, and will always be, your child’s first and most important teacher," the letter reads. "Miami-Dade County Public Schools has many resources and opportunities for you to make the most of that awesome responsibility." You have to admit, it’s a pretty genius interpretation of that old advertising saying "Get ’em while they’re young."
[B] While the concept of parent academies—in which towns or school districts offer what are essentially classes and workshops on parenting skills—has been around for more than a decade, several larger cities are starting or expanding such programs in an effort to engage parents who are otherwise uninvolved in their child’s education. Philadelphia has invested heavily in this year’s launch of a comprehensive and wide-ranging program for parents. Boston is restoring its Parent University following an earlier version’s shutdown due to budget cuts. And Miami’s Parent Academy, now in its fifth year, offers more than 100 workshops that range from Help Your Child Succeed in Math to Teaching Behavior Skills.
[C] Parent academies are particularly helpful for urban communities full of mothers and fathers who for various reasons are disengaged from their children’s education. Many are single parents with second jobs that leave little time to help with schoolwork. Some are immigrants who don’t understand much English. Some are parents uncomfortable with schoolwork—a survey released by Intel found that more than 50% of parents would rather talk to their kids about drugs or drunk driving than about math or science. And then there’s the general confusion that often comes from dealing with a bureaucracy (官僚作风) as complicated as the typical American school district. "There are parents who are just not as well informed about the way schools work," says Karen Mapp, director of the Education Policy and Management Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. "The policies, the procedures, what state test scores mean—it’s not that they don’t care; they just don’t know how."
[D] Picture yourself in the following supposed situations: you’re a parent who never graduated high school; you’re a parent whose only interactions with schools have been negative ones; you’re a parent who has zero recollection of how to divide fractions; you’re a parent who has no clue as to what the important dates are on the college-application calendar. Now picture yourself experiencing all of the supposed situations at once, and then imagine how your child would suffer from your knowledge deficiency. For as much as the current wave of education reformers like to maintain that quality teachers and schools can help overcome environmental factors, a child’s home life plays an undeniable role in how well they learn, says Mapp.
[E] "I’ve been doing research on family engagement for about 16 years now," she says. "And there’s 40 years of research that indicates a pretty positive relationship between families being engaged in their children’s education and positive effects on students in terms of their academic achievement. "Mapp is currently helping write a case study on Miami’s Parent Academy program, which is one of the nation’s most successful big-city attempts in this area. Privately funded by local philanthropists (慈善家) and businesses, the Parent Academy has seen more than 120,000 people participate in its workshops during the past half-decade. It has taught parents everything from how to reinforce reading lessons at home to how to deal with threat and the dangers of sexing.
[F] The county has partly adjusted its approach to serve its large non-English-speaking community. "Many of our newly arrived immigrants don’t understand what they can do to support their child’s success, and they don’t understand the system—there’s no point in going to the school board when you’re concerned about your child’s homework," says Anne Thompson, director of the Miami-Dade program. Because of language issues, she often sees students having to do their parents’ jobs in terms of navigating school bureaucracy.
[G] In Philadelphia, superintendent Arlene Ackerman set up a Parent University this year after expressing concern over low literacy rates for parents and children, as well as a general lack of parental engagement among low-income families, especially among African-American men. Tasked with cherry-picking the best elements from other programs around the country (and tossing the worst), Karren Dunkley, deputy of the Philadelphia School District’s Office of Parent, Family and Community Services, and her colleagues realized that they needed to ground the program within the context of adult continuing education. That is, if you’re trying to teach adults something, give them the respect of having it resemble a real class, which meets more than once, reinforces lessons and allows parents to form learning-centered relationships with instructors and fellow students—just as their kids do. "When we looked around the country, we found one-hit wonders, where parents would come into schools for daylong workshops," says Dunkley. "That really didn’t produce transformative results, nor did it sustain interest or truly give support to parents." [H] Supported primarily by federal funds, the Philadelphia Parent Academy’s "curriculum" runs the scope from a 10-week math-literacy course to a multipart social-etiquette (社交礼仪) class to a one-day session on attendance and truancy (选课) that teaches parents about "compulsory education and attendance law." It’s all targeted toward families in need: parents of children at low-performing schools and residents of housing projects and emergency shelters. Of course, there’s no guarantee that the people who need these programs the most will actually take advantage of them—you can’t force parents to care, no matter how many free classes you offer. Still, says Harvard’s Mapp, you have to make progress where you can. "Family engagement is a shared, mutual partnership between educators and parents," she says. "It’s a two-way conversation between home and school."
Mapp believes that besides teachers and schools, the parents’ help at home is essential for children’s study.
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解析
根据题目中的Mapp和teachers and schools定位到D段最后一句。该句中的plays an undeniable role in相当于题目中的essential for,而how well they learn相当于题目中children’s study,故推断题目信息来源于该段,故选D。
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