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EDUCATION REPORT

April 11, 2002: Better Teachers


By Jerilyn Watson



This is the VOA Special English Education Report.


The Bush administration is trying to improve teaching in American public schools. The goal is to have all
American teachers well prepared by the school year beginning in Two-Thousand -Five.


Officials say the nation will need more than two-million new teachers during the
next ten years. But experts also say the number of possible new teachers is
decreasing.


President Bush’s wife, Laura, recently held a meeting about this situation. Missus
Bush is a former teacher. She invited educators and policy-makers to the White
House Conference on Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers.


Historian 1 Diane Ravitch told the conference that a public school teacher once
needed only to have good morals. Now, she said, a person must satisfy many
governmental requirements. Mizz Ravitch said some of these rules might prevent excellent young people from
becoming teachers. At the same time, she said there is a lack of teachers in many schools in large cities.


Sandra Feldman is president of the American Federation 2 of Teachers, a labor 3 union. She noted 4 a report that a
committee of her union prepared two years ago. The report called for changes in teacher-education programs in
universities. It said students who want to become teachers should study more liberal arts and science subjects.
The goal is to increase knowledge of the subjects they will teach. Currently 5, many college students studying to be
teachers spend more time learning teaching methods than subject content.


However, Mizz Feldman also said knowing educational methods is extremely important. She asked those
attending the conference to consider how they would teach children without knowing what methods succeed. She
asked them how they would teach twenty-five children to read without knowing how children learn.


Mizz Feldman noted that the report called for new teachers to succeed on tests before they can begin teaching.
She also urged that the best teachers supervise 6 and support new teachers.


Laura Bush also said better preparation is very important. She said she had felt satisfied with her college
education. But as a new teacher, she recognized that she needed more skills. Missus Bush said teaching was a
much harder job than she had thought.


This VOA Special English Education Report was written by Jerilyn Watson.



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1 historian
n.历史学家,编史家
  • As a historian,he was most typical of the times in which he lived.作为历史学家,他是他所处时代最有代表性的人物。
  • He calls himself a historian,but his books are a mere journalism.他自称为历史学家,但是他的书都是些肤浅的通俗作品。
2 federation
n.同盟,联邦,联合,联盟,联合会
  • It is a federation of 10 regional unions.它是由十个地方工会结合成的联合会。
  • Mr.Putin was inaugurated as the President of the Russian Federation.普京正式就任俄罗斯联邦总统。
3 labor
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
4 noted
adj.著名的,知名的
  • The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
  • Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。
5 currently
adv.通常地,普遍地,当前
  • Currently it is not possible to reconcile this conflicting evidence.当前还未有可能去解释这一矛盾的例证。
  • Our contracts are currently under review.我们的合同正在复查。
6 supervise
v.监督,管理,指导
  • We must supervise and speed up the fulfilment of assigned tasks.已经布置了的工作,应当认真督促检查。
  • Tomorrow he will supervise all the pupils taking the English examination.明天全体学生考英语,他将担任监考。
学英语单词
a pair of colours
adjoining sheets
amnemonic aphasia
anisothermal diagram
annular crucible
arundells
astun
australis surora
balance oscillator
blanket washing machine
branchiostegal ray
brevipetala
capelongo (folgares)
Cassia nodosa
clathrinid
clithon oualaniensis
cnc milling machine
cocoa tree
colloquial speech
component test facility
compression vacuum gauge
conioscinella opacifrons
controlled mine
dense element
diagnostic work
down-draw process
draf
eat well
error of the second type
ewes produce twins
family carabidaes
FMCG
fonge
for-sure
fructus xanthoxyli
glassy tuff
government-organized
guarantor employment status
hand pressure condensation
have the ability to do sth
heave a ship apeak
high-frequency induction coil
high-voltage pulser
hollinshead
horn gap switch
Hugh Capet
hull structure similar model
inherent nature of commodity
injury of elbow fascia
inspection charge
intensicon
Jenner,Sir William
joint snakes
kepi
litharch sere
Lossburg
Machanao, Mt.
melero
message entropy
mountain blacksnake
New Age Movement
orchiotomy
paper and board
patrocinations
pelvis aequabililer justo minor
pentadecylene dicarboxylic acid
periodic file
phenyl-dihydroquinazoline tannate
pius i
popcorn balls
potentiometric wheel
ppkis
preference-field index number
protein glycation
radar rainfall integrator
reencourages
refudiated
relation of market supply and demand
responsibilized
run across sth
russell-simmons
sabelline
sara crewe
scarlet toxin
shit-stirrers
siphon recording barometer
sir jack hobbss
siskind
sour odour
spool flange
stuprum
subsectional
Talidine
tempilaq
tissue roentgen
tocandiras
tongguansan
truncatella amaniensis
urnsful
warrioress
wave selector
weald-clay