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Justine Greening, the UK education secretary, looks set to be defined by the debate on grammar schools: four months into her job
Justine Greening, the UK education secretary, looks set to be defined by the debate on grammar schools: four months into her job
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2019-11-13
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Justine Greening, the UK education secretary, looks set to be defined by the debate on grammar schools: four months into her job and it’s difficult to point to any other significant announcement or new idea.
The debate reveals all the inequalities and divisions that have plagued our education system. It has released a torrent of protest. The opposition to a return to the selective education of the 50s and 60s comes from all sections of society and the political spectrum.
While opponents of grammar schools argue this case, the government is refraining the debate so it is no longer about traditional grammar schools but instead about their place in the new education landscape — grammar schools taking over struggling schools or opening free schools. This could appear a far more attractive proposition to the public. But it is a deeply flawed idea and not supported by evidence.
The government’s case is outlined in its consultation paper. Its premise is that strong schools should support struggling schools and teachers learn from each other, arguing that selective schools are the great strength in the system and are uniquely equipped to improve some of the country’s most challenging schools. Selective schools’ new role will be to recruit more children from poor backgrounds, take over struggling schools and open non-selective schools from scratch.
Many selective schools do well by the children they choose, and contribute to education beyond their own doors. But does their success with bright, motivated young people from supportive home backgrounds give them the skills and experience to turn round schools with large numbers of struggling and disaffected children? That is where the challenge lies.
Our schools need to do better for the children who underachieve and who
wouldn’t get anywhere near the grammar school pass mark
but who have huge promise if it could only be unlocked. What are grammar schools going to offer them? The whole debate reveals an outdated view of the world: traditional groups are thought to have all the answers.
We are far from realizing the dream of a school system where background is no barrier to achievement and all children flourish — but the comprehensive system has taken us further along this road than any system before. Ministers should regard comprehensives as the 21st-century engines of social mobility and our best hope of further progress, but we now seem to have a government with little confidence in the system that educates more than 90% of the nation’s children.
The author of this passage is trying to argue that______.
选项
A、grammar schools should help weak schools
B、secondary education in the UK is now perfect
C、selective schools can play a more important role
D、comprehensive schools are our best hope
答案
D
解析
文章作者从未说明英国的中学教育是完美无瑕的,也不支持文法学校帮助质量差的学校。作者对现行的中学教学体系持肯定态度,并没有建议文法学校发挥更重要的作用。最后一段充分反映了作者的观点,如下列文字:. . . further along this road than any system before…engines of social mobility and our best hope of further progress…the system that educates more than 90%of the nation’s children。
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