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【分析解答题】Bring Our Schools out of the 20thCentury
There’s a dark little joke exchanged by educators with an opposing trace: Rip Van Winkle awakens in the 21 century after a hundred-year sleep and is, of course, utterly bewildered by what he sees. Men and women dash about, talking to small metal devices attached to their ears. Young people sit at home on sofas, moving miniature athletes around on electronic screens. Older folk defy death and disability with devices in their chests and with hips made of metal and plasti
C、Airports, hospitals, shopping walls—every place Rip goes just baffles him.But when he finally walks into a schoolroom, the old man knows exactly where he is. "This is a school," he declares. "We used to have these back in 1906. Only now the blackboards are green."
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 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once diD、sitting in rows, listening to teachers’ lecture, scribbling notes by hand, reading from textbooks that are out of date by the time they are printeD、A、yawning gap separates the world inside the schoolhouse from the world outside.
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. 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 thanEnglish.
Right now we’re aiming too low.Competency in reading and math is just the minimum. Scientific and technical skills are, likewise, utterly necessary but insufficient. Today’s economy demands not only a high-level competence in the traditional academic disciplines but also what might be called 21st century skills. Here’s what they are:
Knowing more about the worlD、
Thinking outside the box.
Becoming smarter about new sources of information.
Developing good people skills.
Real Knowledge in the GoogleEra
Learn the names of all the rivers in SouthAmericA、That was the assignment given toDeborah Stipek’s daughter Meredith in school, and her mom, who’s dean of the Stanford University School ofEducation, was not impresseD、"That’s silly," Stipek told her daughter. "Tell your teacher that if you need to know anything besides theAmazon, you can look it up on Google."Any number of old-school assignment—memorizing the battles of theCivil War or the periodic table of the elements—now seem faintly absurD、That kind of information, which is poorly retained unless you routinely use it, is available at a keystroke. Still, few would argue that anAmerican child shouldn’t learn the causes of theCivil War or understand how the periodic table reflects the atomic structure and properties of the elements.As school criticE、D、Hirsch Jr. points out in his book, The KnowledgeDeficit, kids need a substantial fund of information just to make sense of reading materials beyond the grade-school level. Without mastering the fundamental building blocks of math, science or history, complex concepts are impossible.
Many analysts believe that to achieve the right balance between such core knowledge and what educators call "portable skills"—critical thinking, making connections between ideas and knowing how to keep on learning—the US curriculum needs to become more like that of Singapore,Belgium and Sweden, whose students outperformAmerican students on math and science tests.Classes in these countries dwell on k
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