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American schools aren’t exactly frozen in time, but considering the pace of change in other areas of life, our public schools te
American schools aren’t exactly frozen in time, but considering the pace of change in other areas of life, our public schools te
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2015-06-24
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American schools aren’t exactly frozen in time, but considering the pace of change in other areas of life, our public schools tend to feel like throwbacks. Kids spend much of the day as their great-grandparents once did: sitting in rows, listening to teachers lecture, scribbling notes by hand, reading from textbooks that are out of date by the time they are printed.
For the past five years, the national conversation on education has focused on reading scores, math tests and closing the "achievement gap" between social classes. This is not a story about that conversation.【F1】______.
This week the conversation will burst onto the front page, when the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, a high-powered, bipartisan assembly of Education Secretaries, business leaders and a former Governor releases a blueprint for rethinking American education to better prepare students to thrive in the global economy. While that report includes some controversial proposals, there is nonetheless a remarkable consensus among educators and business and policy leaders on one key conclusion: we need to bring what we teach and how we teach into the 21st century. Right now we’re aiming too low. Competency in reading and math is the meager minimum.Scientific and technical skills are, likewise, utterly necessary but insufficient.【F2】______Here’s what they are:
Knowing more about the world.【F3】______Mike Eskew,CEO of UPS, talks about needing workers who are "global trade literate, sensitive to foreign cultures, conversant in different languages"—not exactly strorig points in the U.S., where fewer than half of high school students are enrolled in a foreign-language class and where the social-studies curriculum tends to fixate on U.S. history.
Thinking outside the box. Jobs in the new economy—the ones that won’t get outsourced or automated—"put an enormous premium on creative and innovative skills, seeing patterns where other people see only chaos," says Marc Tucker, a lead author of the skills-commission report. That’s a problem for U.S. schools.【F4】______.
Becoming smarter about new sources of information. In an age of overflowing information and proliferating media, kids need to rapidly process what’s coming at them and distinguish between what’s reliable and what isn’t.【F5】______.
Developing good people skills. EQ, or emotional intelligence, is as important as IQ for success in today’s workplace. "Most innovations today involve large teams of people," says former Lockheed Martin CEO Norman Augustine. "We have to emphasize communication skills, the ability to work in teams and with people from different cultures."
A.Kids are global citizens now, whether they know it or not, and they need to behave that way.
B."It’s important that students know how to manage it, interpret it, validate it, and how to act on it," says Dell executive Karen Bruett, who serves on the board of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, a group of corporate and education leaders focused on upgrading American education.
C.Today’s economy demands not only a high-evel competence in the traditional academic disciplines but also what might be called 21st century skills.
D.This is a story about the big public conversation the nation is not having about education, the one that will ultimately determine not merely whether some fraction of our children get "left behind" but also whether an entire generation of kids will fail to make the grade in the global economy because they can’t think their way through abstract problems, work in teams, distinguish good information from bad or speak a language other than English.
E. Can our public schools, originally designed to educate workers for agrarian life and industrial-age factories, make the necessary shifts?
F.But without waiting for such a revolution, enterprising administrators around the country have begun to update their schools, often with ideas and support from local businesses.
G. Kids also must learn to think across disciplines, since that’s where most new breakthroughs are made. It’s interdisciplinary combinations—design and technology, mathematics and art—"that produce YouTube and Google," says Thomas Friedman, the best-selling author of The World Is Flat.
【F2】
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C
解析
空格前提到掌握基本技能是必需但并不足够,根据信息词competency和skills,C项出现的a high-levelcompetence与前文同义复现,而traditional academic disciplines对应前文的reading and math,句末的21st century skills引出下文的新技能要求,承上启下,故为正确答案。
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