时间:2019-01-31 作者:英语课 分类:2007年VOA常速英语(十月)


英语课
By Victoria Cavaliere
New York
24 October 2007

New York's Metropolitan 1 Museum of Art has opened a newly renovated 2, state-of-the-art education center that will allow students, scholars and the general public to study the museum's world-renown collections that span more than 5,000 years of world history. Victoria Cavaliere reports from VOA's New York Bureau art educators say the center's expansion comes at a critical time as many U.S. public schools are cutting their art programs to focus on other subject areas.


Students, teachers, volunteers and donors 3 were on hand for the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education at New York's Metropolitan Museum.


The massive public space now includes a renovated library, lecture halls, classrooms, and the museum's first-ever "art study room" designed for teaching while using original works of art.


Ken 4 Lydecker, the associate director for education at the museum, says each year the Met presents 20,000 educational programs and events. He says the new facility is a welcoming place for students, teachers, and the general public to learn about art.


"In the course of a normal day, the Uris Center will see school groups coming to the museum and getting ready to explore the collections, it will see teachers who are coming for a teachers' workshop; we'll have high school students who are coming for after school programs and we will have members of the public and scholars," he said.


Among the first to experience the new space was Michelle Kurlan, who teaches art to pre-kindergarten and primary school students at a New York City public school. She brought her 15-member art club to explore the new facility.


"We just looked at a lot of different art work, Greek, Roman and two modern paintings, and actually we are tying it into some of the lessons we are doing in the classroom. It was also nice that all the things I've been teaching them over the past few years, they were repeating that vocabulary," she said.


The education center's expansion comes at a time when many U.S. public schools are cutting back on their art programs. The current federal education law known as No Child Left Behind calls on schools to significantly increase class time on math and reading, often at the expense of other subjects, like art.


But supporters of art educators say this is a mistake. They point to recent studies, like one conducted last year by the Guggenheim Museum, which finds that students who study art are better students overall.


The Guggenheim study found that school-age children whose curriculum includes art perform better in six categories of literacy and critical thinking than those with no art study.


Faith Hutchinson helped develop some of the new educational tools at the Met, and she says she believes all areas of academics are augmented 5 by the study of art. She also says using computer programs to help teach children about shapes and colors will help keep their art education timely.


"Children enjoy video games so much these days, and they are raised practically using a mouse on the computer, we figure this is a good way to advance their knowledge of art, as well," she said.


Seven-year-old Luca Wilson made his first trip to the new center with his grandmother. He was an instant fan of the new computer technology that allows him to color and draw. "I'm making a little mountain, I making the shapes and I'm attaching them together," he said.


The Metropolitan Museum says it sees art education as one of its most essential public roles. It's 20,000 art programs every year also include lectures, tours, and traditional pen-to-paper exercises.




adj.大城市的,大都会的
  • Metropolitan buildings become taller than ever.大城市的建筑变得比以前更高。
  • Metropolitan residents are used to fast rhythm.大都市的居民习惯于快节奏。
翻新,修复,整修( renovate的过去式和过去分词 )
  • He renovated his house. 他翻修了房子。
  • The house has been renovated three years earlier. 这所房子三年前就已翻新。
n.捐赠者( donor的名词复数 );献血者;捐血者;器官捐献者
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  • About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.视野,知识领域
  • Such things are beyond my ken.我可不懂这些事。
  • Abstract words are beyond the ken of children.抽象的言辞超出小孩所理解的范围.
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account total
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administrative provisions
aftosa
analog modeling
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auxiliary exciting winding
avaliable bit rate
average rate of growth
bacillus coli aerogenes
band shape
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bryum billardieri
calorimetric pyrometer
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consular fee
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extended reproduction funds
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file delete
fission gas plenum
flank fire
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geothermal resources assessment
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glycol monosalicylate
gonadocentric
Great Tenasserim R.
gyils
Habenaria fargesii
height computation
hepatorenal reflex
high altitude satellite
Howard, Henry
huanta
hydranencephalies
in esse
Iwon-man
kisslike
Laohekou
Lemuriformes
likelihood ratio test threshold
limit of authority
line of communication
locking motor
make music
mantle friction
marketing distribution
Medipectol
moweare
N-gate thyristor
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nmtr
non-analytic field
nonfederally
operator call
oversail
oxy-acetylene cutter
Pavieasia kwangsiensis
photometric integrating sphere
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prefetal
project evaluation and review technique/cost
quarter-wave termination
run an eye over
Saint George's
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saraw (philippines)
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scroll mode terminal
security of operation
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short-landed account
side house
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tax anticipation bills
tell me off
tribromethane
tsen
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Veronicastrum longispicatum
waveform tracing
weakly nonlinear system
well-wroughts
white tail
white thistles
winkey
Yves Rocard Seamount