时间:2019-01-02 作者:英语课 分类:VOA2003(下)-教育与新闻


英语课

By Jerilyn Watson
Broadcast: September 11, 2003
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report.
About one-in-four people age three and older in the United States is a student. The government says this new school year finds more than seventy-three-million students in nursery school through college. That is out of a national population of almost two-hundred-ninety million people.
The Census 1 Bureau estimates the number of elementary through high school students at more than fifty-three million. This is even more than there were in nineteen-sixty-nine. That was the year when the last of the "baby boom" children entered American schools.
The baby boom was a major increase in childbirth in the United States. It began in nineteen-forty-six, after World War Two, and lasted until nineteen-sixty-four.
Census Bureau studies help government agencies decide how much to spend for education. Educators say the school population growth means increased financial pressure on school systems. They need more money to help serve more students.
The student population this fall should not be a surprise. The government says there was major growth in the student population during the nineteen-nineties. A new Census Bureau report says the number increased by about twenty percent during those years. This included kindergarten students, from about age five, up through college students.
In some areas, school populations grew even more. For example, in the West, the state of Nevada had a seventy-six percent increase in students. That seemed natural enough. Nevada had the largest population growth of any state during the nineteen-nineties.
Among other numbers, the Census Bureau says twenty-six percent of high school students work while attending school. And the agency reported a reduction in the number of students who leave high school before they complete their studies. The 1)dropout 2 rate fell from eleven percent in nineteen-ninety to just under ten percent in two-thousand.
Another estimate says more children are attending private school now than in the past. Currently, about ten percent of all students of elementary or high school age go to private schools.
And, the Census Bureau says ninety-eight percent of public schools in the United States are connected to the Internet.
This VOA Special English Education Report was written by Jerilyn Watson. This is Steve Ember.
注释:
1) dropout [5drCp 7aut] n.退学学生,中途退学,辍学学生

n.(官方的)人口调查,人口普查
  • A census of population is taken every ten years.人口普查每10年进行一次。
  • The census is taken one time every four years in our country.我国每四年一次人口普查。
n.退学的学生;退学;退出者
  • There is a high dropout rate from some college courses.有些大学课程的退出率很高。
  • In the long haul,she'll regret having been a school dropout.她终归会后悔不该中途辍学。
学英语单词
abdelhamid
ad-hocracies
advanced composite materials (acm)
algol-type
alkaline phosphatase
angiosperm
asch-
automatic segmentation and control
aviation institute
bad economy
baitz
bank atoll
Betafo
bikini-bottom
bring into service
Buchbrunn
bulb-bowed ship
capability
capital of Iowa
cautious running
chrominance signal correction
ciliations
complex beltconveyor
conditionally compact space
conjugatenetwork
days of heating period
dazomets
dedicated to
diazs
dictyosporium subramanianii
dispersed latex
divestest
division levels
doublegelical gear
drotning
dubaya
enfleshment
esonant flip-flop
evoked
extorsions
field circuit loss
frequency variation
front part theoretical length of turnout
garden balsam
gaseous emissivity
genus Heliothis
Germanization
GM_suppose-supposing-and-what-if
graded-test
HFB
high burn up
high-current microtron
hyperphonesis
incineration at sea
inspection of fit clearance of propeller
interconnect thermometry
ionospheric reflection
key cut
komlans
landline
legal review
lifo algorithm
longicorn beetles
look-at-me request
mediterranean-type
melizitose (melicitose)
metal powder oxygen cutting
methane chloride
microslice
microwave radiation scale
mission-oriented results audit
multiangulum major
multivariate processes
Newton's law of viscosity
nonwheeled
nsfus
operation request
outer complement
overwithholds
papyrus
parting gift
personal communicator
poor little rich girl
presphenoid bone (praesphenoid bone)
racch
reaction tower
relative concentration
ridgerope
rockalls
rules of procedure
schmidt's number
Silene trachyphylla
statistical of counting
subscriber telephone
torreyinol
truncation part
unsplitpattern
upstager
vidicon camera tube
wash and disinfectant house
water-mole
wild-oatss