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Soon after starting his job as superintendent (监管人) of the Memphis, Term., p
Soon after starting his job as superintendent (监管人) of the Memphis, Term., p
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2023-07-19
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Soon after starting his job as superintendent (监管人) of the Memphis, Term., public schools, Kriner Cash ordered an assessment of his new district’s 104,000 students. The findings were depressing: nearly a third had been held back at least one academic year. The high school graduation rate had fallen to 67%. One in five dropped out. But what most concerned him was that the number of students considered "highly mobile", meaning they had moved at least once during the school year, had ballooned to 34,000, partly because of the home-foreclosure crisis. At least 1,500 students were homeless — probably more. "I had a whole array of students who were angry, depressed, not getting the rest they needed," Cash says. It led him to consider an unusual proposition: What if the best way to help kids in impoverished (赤贫的) urban neighborhoods is to get them out?
Cash is now calling for Memphis to create a residential school for 300 to 400 kids whose parents are in financial distress, with a live-in faculty rivaling those of elite New England prep schools. If Cash’s dream becomes a reality, it will probably look a lot like SEED, a charter school in Southeast Washington, which stands for Schools for Educational Evolution and Development. Its 320 students — seventh- to 12th-graders — should live on campus five days a week. They are expected to adhere to a strict dress code and keep their room tidy. There are computers in the dorms’ common areas, and each student in grades 10 and above is given a desktop computer. At 11:30 every night, it’s lights out.
In his plan for Memphis, Cash wants even more time. Perhaps the most provocative (能引起 争议的) aspect of his proposal is to focus on students in grades 3 through 5 for homelessness is growing sharply among kids at that critical age, when much of their educational foundation is set, Cash says. His aim: to prevent illiteracy and clear other learning roadblocks early, so the problem "won’t migrate into middle and high school". Students will remain on campus year-round. The school would cost up to $50,000 a day to operate — three times the cost of a traditional day school with more than twice as many students. "It sounds very exciting, but the devil is in the details,’" says Ellen Bassuk, president of the National Center on Family Homelessness in Newton, Mass. [br] What does Ellen Bassuk imply by saying "It sounds very exciting... details" (Line 7, Para. 3)?
选项
A、It is very optimistic to run a residential school successfully.
B、Details are important for operating the residential school.
C、Running a residential school is as awful as dealing with the devil.
D、Operating the residential school is not so easy as imagining.
答案
D
解析
文章末句引号中的意思是这听起来让人非常兴奋,但伤脑筋的是细节问题。再分析文章可知,It指的是前一句话的内容,主要是指寄宿学校的运作。由此可知,这里说的是具体的运作没有想象中的那么容易。四个选项中与文意贴近的是[D]。[A]中的optimistic与but后的内容不符,可排除。[B]、[C]与文意不符。
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