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本帖最后由 janicesa 于 2010-2-18 14:07 编辑
Plan Would Let Students Start College After 10th Grade
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/education/18educ.html?hp
In an experiment that could reshape American secondary education, high schools in eight states will introduce new courses next year, along with a battery of tests(一系列的测验) for sophomores, that will allow students who pass to get a diploma two years early and immediately enroll in community college.(补充:a battery of questions一连串的疑问)
Students who pass but aspire to(渴望) attend a selective college may continue with college preparatory courses in their junior and senior years, organizers of the new effort said.
“That’s a central problem we’re trying to address, the enormous failure rate of these kids when they go to the open admission colleges,” said Marc S. Tucker, president of the National Center on Education and the Economy, a Washington-based nonprofit that is organizing the board exam effort. “We’ve looked at schools all over the world, and if you walk into a high school in the countries that use these board exams, you’ll see kids working hard, whether they want to be a carpenter or a brain surgeon.”
The 100 or so high schools participating in the initiative(倡议,新方案) are pioneers(开拓者) in a pilot project that organizers hope will eventually spread to all schools in those states, and inspire other states across the nation to follow suit.
“This would reform that,” Mr. Holliday said. “We’ve been tied to seat time for 100 years. This would allow an approach based on subject mastery — a system based around move-on-when-ready.”
The new system aims to provide students with a clear outline of what they need to study to succeed, said Phil Daro, a Berkeley-based consultant who is a member of an advisory committee for the effort.
School systems like Singapore’s promise students that if they study diligently the material in their course syllabuses, they will do well on their examinations, Mr. Daro said. “In the U.S., by contrast, all is murky. Students do not have a clear idea of where to apply their effort, and the system makes no coherent attempt to reward learning.”
Other recommendations of the 2006 panel included giving states, rather than local districts, control over school financing, and starting school for most children at age 3. Mr. Tucker said that the board examination project was the broadest effort at putting the panel’s proposals into effect so far.
“One hope is that this board exam system can prepare students to move on to careers, to higher ed and technical colleges and the workplace, sooner rather than later,” said Howard T. Everson, a professor of educational psychology at the City University of New York, who is co-chairman of the advisory committee. |
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