时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:2006年VOA标准英语(一月)


英语课

By Scott Stearns
Accra, Ghana
17 January 2006

The Bush administration has joined six American universities with six African nations to develop new primary school curricula. U.S. first lady Laura Bush announced the plan during a visit to Ghana.

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The partnership 1 matches American universities in the states of Illinois, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and Alabama with educators in Ghana, Senegal, Zambia, Tanzania, South Africa and Ethiopia. 

 


Laura Bush, right, sits with Ghana's President John Agyekum Kufuor at the Accra Teacher Training Center   
  

They will develop individual curricula for children between kindergarten and eighth grade, ultimately producing 15 million primary schoolbooks.

"These textbooks will be created in Africa, so they will represent the unique experiences of African students," the first lady explained. "The text will be written with African cultures at the center, and the illustrations will depict 2 African scenes."

Mrs. Bush says the subjects will include reading, mathematics, science, and language arts, with additional funding to produce flash cards, charts, and teaching guides to give instructors 3 more options for individual students.

Its part of the Bush administration's Africa Education Initiative, a $600 million plan to provide books, scholarships, school uniforms, and teacher training.


Speaking at the Accra Teacher Training College, Mrs. Bush said the initiative includes funds to train 920,000 teachers in 20 Sub-Saharan countries.

It is also focused on getting more African girls in school with 550,000 primary and secondary school scholarships for tuition, fees, books, and uniforms.

"The American people support these scholarships because we believe that investing in a child's education will produce benefits many times over in the future," she said. "An educated woman is better able to provide for her family economically, and to be an advocate for her own children's education. She has the knowledge and the skills to find new ways to improve life in her community. She is prepared to be an active participant in society, and perhaps even a national leader."

Laura Bush attended Monday's inauguration 4 of Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa's first female head of state. The first lady said the new Liberian president is an example for young women around the world as she rose to the top of her government through hard work, faith in democracy and belief in the power of education.



n.合作关系,伙伴关系
  • The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
  • Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。
vt.描画,描绘;描写,描述
  • I don't care to see plays or films that depict murders or violence.我不喜欢看描写谋杀或暴力的戏剧或电影。
  • Children's books often depict farmyard animals as gentle,lovable creatures.儿童图书常常把农场的动物描写得温和而可爱。
指导者,教师( instructor的名词复数 )
  • The instructors were slacking on the job. 教员们对工作松松垮垮。
  • He was invited to sit on the rostrum as a representative of extramural instructors. 他以校外辅导员身份,被邀请到主席台上。
n.开幕、就职典礼
  • The inauguration of a President of the United States takes place on January 20.美国总统的就职典礼于一月二十日举行。
  • Three celebrated tenors sang at the president's inauguration.3位著名的男高音歌手在总统就职仪式上演唱。
学英语单词
abdicant
aboriginal education law
animal liberationist
apriona rugicollis
arrowre
aube
benzehromone
Bint Ghābāt
bisphenols
bit your tongue
bottom chord member
brachythecium procumbens
brotherella integrifolia
bulimias
bumper step
carcinoma muciparum
cascade lubrication
Cazaje
centrifugalises
chian varnish
chlorfenpropmethyl
clonal activation
Congrevean
conrods
counter-arch
deserialising
diesel engine electric remote-control unit
digitals-to-analogue
doretta
double referee system
double thread worm
DSig
duplex management program
economic expert
electron energy distribution
emulational language
engine cylinders radial arrangement
epidermolytic hyperkeratosis
equally-spaced
Equisetum robustum
every quarter
forestalling lever
forward summary
fovea limbica
gas capacity
hanging judge
have a good constitution
have many demands on
heterotrichosis
hexan-hexol
industrial cooperation
international telex exchange (intelex)
interruptable state
klim
leaping voltage
leased satellite network service
leave a hole to creep out of
limnanthemum nymphoides hoff. et link. floating-heart
lower courts
madhhabites
misery guts
netas
nickle and dime
noise modulator
nonce words
not under command
outflow area
peak zone
planer knife sharpener
power on light
power-law creep
precession circle
projected blade area
quality newspaper
reaction type brake tester
Riga-Fede disease
rotary drum mower
rovatti
salt water ice
sanguineane
sebadilla
seems the best
self aging
side-ladder
silk-screening
single-channel table receiver
slaloaerophagy
soft line
sound exposure level
st. james c.
suborder Sciuromorpha
synchilia syncheilia
Townsend cascade
tsdm
uiewpoint
Umm Rujm
undongs
warm-solution tank
wetted cross-sectional area
wind tunnel wall interference
Y signal
yesterday week