[考研英語]研究生英語課文翻譯及課后習(xí)題答案unit-文庫吧資料
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【正文】 m to longterm illiteracy. It would mean that teachers would have to follow through on their threats, and parents would have to stand behind them, knowing their children39。ve got. They have a healthy fear of failure. People of all ages can rise above their problems, but they need to have a reason to do so. Young people generally don39。t put school first on their list unless they perceive something is at stake. They39。t know how I ever got a highschool diploma. Passing students who have not mastered the work cheats them and the employers who expect graduates to have basic skills. We excuse this dishonest behavior by saying kids can39。s going to flunk you, I told my son. I did not discuss it any further. Suddenly English became a priority in his life. He finished out the semester with an A. I know one example doesn39。t move seniors, she said. I flunk them. I was flustered. Our son39。t do it, there is another way to show who holds the winning hand in the classroom. That is to reveal the trump card of failure. I will never fet a teacher who played that card to get the attention of one of my children. Our youngest, a worldclass charmer, did little to develop his intellectual talents but always got by. Until Mrs. Stifter. Our son was a highschool senior when he had her for English. He sits in the back of the room talking to his friends, she told me. Why don39。t read and couldn39。 block here! I wish someone would have had made me stop doing drugs and made me study. I liked to party and no one seemed to care. I was a good kid and didn39。 1 Unit 1 Text A In praise of the F world Tens of thousands of 18yearolds will graduate this year and be handed meaningless diplomas. These diplomas won39。t look any different from those awarded their luckier classmates. Their validity will be questioned only when their employers discover that these graduates are semiliterate. Eventually a fortunate few will find their way into educationalrepair shopsadultliteracy programs, such as the one where I teach basic grammar and writing. There, highschool graduates and highschool dropouts pursuing graduateequivalency certificates will learn the skills they should have learned in school. They will also discover they have been cheated by our educational system. As I teach, I learn a lot about our schools. Early in each session I ask my students to write about an unpleasant experience they had in school. No writers39。t cause any trouble, so they just passed me along even though I didn39。t write. And so on. I am your basic dogooder, and prior to teaching this class I blamed the poor academic skills our kids have today on drugs, divorce and other impe
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