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
-rific
Abel tests
All 's well that ends well.
androgynises
anti-independence
association for computing machinery (acm)
atteveld
ball hockey
Bas-en-Basset
Berl saddles
bromatological
burkaed
call someone's bluff
capital-in-excess account
Carex peiktusani
center upset
cerium materials/devices
charlesite
cloisters
congestion window
constancies
crenimugil crenilabi
cum towel
david turner
decorrelations
DIFI
direct cycle access storage device (dasd)
discrete-time convolution property
document storage status
dysosma veitchii (hemsl. et wils. fu)
easy on the trigger
easy-to-grasp
ecological engineering
epicanthal fold
esophagectomies
eulogious
expenditure for procurement
fire hole ring
Formosa B.
Gave d'Oloron
high speed ball mill
inferior tarsal muscle
interlock control
knife file
Kogushi
latching logic
left ventriculo-aortic conduit
limit of integration
locking pushbutton
long-stem nozzle
lpci open signal
Macdowel's frenum
main scheduling routine
make your presence felt
masson disk
matching magnet
mergers-and-acquisitions
metatracheal wide type
methylglutaconyl
Mixed Mode CD
mobiliary art
monoclines
multiple storage
multiple utility
nanotexturing
neural anesthesia
oath-rite
odman
pearlins
pedatilobed
petewilliamsite
Phenazodine
pipeline conveyor
polyanionic surfactant
potassium methyl sulfate
preserved meat
primary marketing
propylmercuric bromide
punch-tape code
pusher bar
quasi-factorical design
rabbinish
rack up
RAID4
ranking form
remote control rack
resonant vibrator
Rikuzentakata
running latte
secondary peduncle
shear-plate nozzle
struma colloides cystica
suburbans
table napkin
Tensift, Oued
Tismana
transportin
unit start-up and commissioning
unshadowable
upganger
vacuum packer
vehicle currency