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Various studies have shown that increased spending on education has not led
Various studies have shown that increased spending on education has not led
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2023-06-26
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Various studies have shown that increased spending on education has not led to measurable improvements in learning. Between 1980 and 2008, staff and teachers at US public schools grew roughly twice as fast as students. Yet students showed no additional learning in achievement tests.
Universities show similar trends of increased administration personnel and costs without greater learning, as documented in Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa’s recent book Academically Adrift:Limited Learning on College Campuses.
A survey shows that 63% of employers say that recent college graduates don’t have the skills they need to succeed and 25% of employers say that entry-level writing skills are lacking.
Some simplistically attribute the decline in our public education system to the drain of skilled students by private schools, but far more significant events were at work.
Public schools worked well until about the 1970s. In fact, until that time, public schools provided far better education than private ones. It was the underperforming students who were thrown out of public schools and went to private ones.
A prominent reason public schools did well was that many highly qualified women had few options for working outside the house other than being teachers or nurses. They accepted relatively low pay,difficult working conditions, and gave their very best.
Having such a large supply of talented women teachers meant that society could pay less for their services. Women’s liberation opened up new professional opportunities for women, and, over time, some of the best left teaching as a career option, bringing about a gradual decline in the quality of schooling.
Also around that time, regulations, government, and unions came to dictate pay, prevent adjustments, and introduce bureaucratic (官僚的)standard for advancement. Large education bureaucracies and unions came to dominate the landscape, confusing activity with achievement. Bureaucrats regularly rewrite curriculums, talk nonsense about theories of education, and require ever more administrators. The end result has been that, after all the spending, students have worse math and reading skills than both their foreign peers and earlier generations spending far less on education— as all the accumulating evidence now documents. [br] What does the author think is one of the results of government involvement in education?
选项
A、Increasing emphasis on theories of education.
B、Highly standardized teaching methods.
C、Students’ improved academic performance.
D、An ever-growing number of aolministrators.
答案
D
解析
原文第八段介绍了官僚主义对公立学校的影响,前三句举例说明带来的负面影响,包括规定工资、阻止变革和引入晋升的官僚式标准,将活动和成就混为一谈,定期改写课程、对教育理论胡说八道以及不断要求增加行政人员等;最后一句说明导致的最终结果,学生们的数学和阅读技巧既比不上国外的同龄人,也比不上先前在教育上投人少得多时的那几代人。对照选项,只有D“不断增加的行政人员数量”符合原文表述,故为答案。
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