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Parents can easily come down with an acute case of schizophrenia from reading the contradictory reports about the state of the p
Parents can easily come down with an acute case of schizophrenia from reading the contradictory reports about the state of the p
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2014-03-22
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Parents can easily come down with an acute case of schizophrenia from reading the contradictory reports about the state of the public schools. One set of experts asserts that the schools are better than they have been for years. Others say that the schools are in terrible shape and are responsible for every national problem from urban poverty to the trade deficit.
One group of experts look primarily at such indicators as test scores, and they cheer that they see all the indicators "reading scores, minimum competency test results, the Scholastic Aptitude Test scores" are up, some by substantial margins. Students are required to take more academic courses, more mathematics and science, along with greater stress on basic skills, including knowledge of computers. More than 40 state legislatures have mandated such changes.
But in the eyes of another set of school reformers such changes are at best superficial and at worst counterproductive. These experts say that merely toughening requirements, without either improving the quality of instruction or, even more important, changing the way schools are organised and children are taught makes the schools worse rather than better. They challenge the nature of the tests, mostly multiple choice or true or false, by which children’s progress is measured: they charge that raising the test scores by drilling pupils to come up with the right answers does not improve knowledge, understanding and the capacity to think logically and independently. In addition, these critics fear that the get-tough approach to school reform will cause more of the youngsters at the bottom to give up and drop out. This, they say, may improve national scores but drain even further the nation’s pool of educated people.
The way to cut through the confusion is to understand the different yardsticks used by different observers.
Compared with what schools used to be like "in the good old days", with lots of drill and uniform requirements, and the expectation that many youngsters who could not make it would drop out and find their way into unskilled jobs — by those yardsticks the schools have measurably improved in recent years.
But by the yardsticks of those experts who believe that the old schools were deficient in teaching the skills needed in the modern world, today’s schools have not become better. These educators believe that rigid new mandates may actually have made the schools worse.
The best title for this passage would be______.
选项
A、Experts’ Dissidence on Issue of Quality of Schools
B、Conflicting Views on Schools
C、Improved Quality of Schools
D、Poor Quality of Schools
答案
A
解析
文章第1段第2、3句指出两组专家的不同观点,一些认为学校现在的状况比几年以来的情况都要好,而另一些则称学校现在的情况非常糟糕,概括起来说就是两组专家对学校质量持不同观点,并且2、3段也是文章的主体部分,对两组专家的观点进行了详细阐述,由此可知,本文主要是与专家对学校质量的不同观点有关,A)项最能概括文章大意,故为答案。
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