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
考研
Teach for America (TFA) was founded by Wendy Kopp in 1990. It is a non-profit organisation that recruits top-notch graduates fro
Teach for America (TFA) was founded by Wendy Kopp in 1990. It is a non-profit organisation that recruits top-notch graduates fro
admin
2011-02-25
32
问题
Teach for America (TFA) was founded by Wendy Kopp in 1990. It is a non-profit organisation that recruits top-notch graduates from elite institutions and gets them to teach for two years in struggling state schools in poor areas.
I had thought the programme was about getting more high-quality teachers — but that, it appears, is a secondary benefit. “This is about enlisting the energy of our country’s future leaders in its long-term educational needs, and eliminating inequity,” Wendy explains. It’s great if “corps members”, as TFA calls its active teachers, stay in the classroom — and many do, and rise quickly through the ranks.
But the “alums”, as she calls those who have finished their two-year teaching, who don’t stay in schools often go on to lead in other fields, meaning that increasing numbers of influential people in all walks of life learn that it is possible to teach successfully in low-income communities, and just what it takes. “It means you realise that we can solve this problem.”
As she continues to talk I realise that TFA is — in the best possible sense — a cult. It has its own language (“corps members”, “alums”), recruits are instilled (“We tell them that it can be done, that we know of hundreds, thousands, of teachers attaining tremendous success”), go through an ordeal (“Everyone hits the wall in week three in the classroom”), emerge transformed by privileged knowledge (“Once you know what we know — that kids in poor urban areas can excel — you can accomplish different things”) and can never leave (alumni form a growing, and influential, network). I have not seen the same zeal when talking to those on the equivalent programme in England, Teach First., in which the missionary-style language imported from America had to be toned down, because it just didn’t suit the restrained English style. But could that favour be necessary for its success?
Chester, an alum, takes me to visit three TFA corps members at a middle school in the Bronx. They are impressive young people, and their zeal is evident. Two intend to stay in teaching; both want to open charter schools. One, a Hispanic woman, is working out with a friend how to educate migrant Hispanic labourers in Texas; the other would like to open a “green” charter, but in the meantime he has accepted a job with the KIPP charter group in Newark, New Jersey.
All three are tired. Their classrooms are not much like the rest of the school where they work, and their heroic efforts are only supported by Chester and each other, not by their co-workers. “The first year was unbelievably bad,” one tells me. “So many years with low expectations meant a lot of resistance from the kids. Eventually they saw the power and the growth they were capable of.”
What does the author think of the Teach First programme in England?
选项
A、It lacks the same fervour that TFA has.
B、It doesn’t suit the British English style.
C、It is imported from the USA.
D、It is not successful in the UK.
答案
A
解析
事实细节题。由题干关键词Teach First将答案锁定在第四段段尾处。倒数第二句提到I have not seen the same zeal...,[A]项与此表达的是同一意思,故为答案。[B]、[C]、[D]错误,是因为原文中提到由美国引进的传教士式的语言不适合英国的风格,不得不缓和下来,而并不是说Teach First项目。
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/M37RFFFM
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
ThesearetoughtimesforWal-Mart,America’sbiggestretailer.Longaccusedof(1)_____small-townAmericamadcondemnedforth
ThesearetoughtimesforWal-Mart,America’sbiggestretailer.Longaccusedof(1)_____small-townAmericamadcondemnedforth
ThesearetoughtimesforWal-Mart,America’sbiggestretailer.Longaccusedof(1)_____small-townAmericamadcondemnedforth
Agaragethesedaysisahighlyprizedasset,likelytoaddasmuchas10%~15%tothevalueofahouse,especiallyifit’sina
Energywillbeoneofthedefiningissuesofthiscentury.Onethingisclear:theeraof(1)_____oilisover.Whatwealldon
Accordingtothetext,scholarsandstudentsaregreattravelersbecauseThewriterthinksthatthegrowthofspecialistsociet
BeforeDr.LutherL.Terry,thentheSurgeonGeneraloftheUnitedStates,issuedhisoffice’sfirst"ReportonSmokingandHeal
InthemonthofSeptember,inBritain,youmayseelargenumbersofbirds(1)_____onroofsandtelegraphwires.Thesebirdsare
InthemonthofSeptember,inBritain,youmayseelargenumbersofbirds(1)_____onroofsandtelegraphwires.Thesebirdsare
随机试题
辖区内有很多独居老人,派出所打算在他们家中安装监控。领导让你去调查,你认为调查重点有哪些?
某患者需要烤瓷全冠修复缺损前牙,下列哪种情况不必一定设计成铸造金属舌面板
下列不属于钢材加工性能的是()。
汉译英:“原产地;有效期限”,正确的翻译为( )。
不同时期和状况下,想提升净资产成长率,必须用不同的方法,下列有关不同时期和状况下提升净资产成长率的方法的叙述正确的有()①年轻人净资产起始点低时,工资薪金所得远大于理财收入,此时应提升工资薪金储蓄率②当我们步入中年,已累积了不少净资产,理财收入的比
一场大雨过后,肖某轿车号牌上的一个数字恰巧被树上掉下来的一片树叶所遮挡,肖某开车回家途中,被交警拦下接受检查,肖某因未带驾驶证,轿车被交警扣留。同时,交警以肖某故意遮挡号牌为由,当场对他作出罚款200元的处罚。肖某提出异议,认为自己不存在遮挡号牌的故意,号
周某丧妻对岳父母仍然尽了主要赡养义务,在其岳父过世后,周某是第一顺序继承人。()
奴隶制国家是人类历史上出现最早的国家类型。在公元前40世纪形成的埃及王国,公元前30世纪在幼发拉底河和底格里斯河流域形成的苏美尔、巴比伦、亚述国家。中国最早的奴隶制国家是()。
下列犯罪中,属于占有型的侵犯财产罪的有()。
IsThereaWaytoKeeptheBritain’sEconomyGrowingIntoday’sknowledgeeconomy,nationssurviveonthethingstheydobes
最新回复
(
0
)