时间:2018-12-16 作者:英语课 分类:2012年VOA慢速英语(十)月


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Education Report - Using Art to Make Summer School More Interesting


This is the VOA Special English Education Report.


June, July and August are vacation months for most American school children. But some young students pay a high price for that long summer break. They may forget much of what they learned over the past year by the time they start the next grade.


This problem is often called the summer learning gap. A growing effort across the country aims to deal with it by offering more interesting summer school programs. Some students already attend summer school, but often because they received poor grades during the regular school year.


STUDENT: "People need food, clothes, and other goods …"


On a recent day, students read out loud about communities in a third-grade social studies class at Bushman Elementary in Dallas, Texas. But the nine- and ten-year-olds were also studying art. Visual arts instructor 1 Ron Oliver works to combine the two subjects.


RON OLIVER: "The kids that never get it -- like the thirty percent that always struggle on testing -- they thrive in this kind of atmosphere. Sometimes they just learn differently."


In addition to reading, the students expressed themselves in picture form by drawing community scenes.


BOY: "When I was drawing, I was expressing my feelings and showing what was happening."


GIRL: "You only use the pictures, and you use it to tell the people, the pictures telling the words for you. You don’t need words."


Their teacher Gloria Pegram has taught elementary school for fifteen years. She says art helps with memory.


GLORIA PEGRAM: "Even with math, we try to be creative with it -- it helps their retention 2. They remember. They say, 'Oh, yes, I remember this because ... ' and they’ll go into what we were doing, hands-on, whatever activity we were doing, to help them understand it better, and to retain it."


Ms. Pegram says students who do not take summer enrichment classes often need to relearn lessons when they return in the fall. This is especially true of low-income students. They are less likely, for example, to live near public libraries offering both books to read and special summer reading programs.


Ed Pauly is director of research and evaluation 3 at the Wallace Foundation. The nonprofit group has invested fifty million dollars to study which programs work best to prevent summer learning loss.


ED PAULY: "And for poor kids, the loss can be as much as three months of school learning that just disappears over the course of the summer. That’s a very significant part of the achievement gap that separates kids from low-income communities from kids from more affluent 4 communities."


He says one promising 5 approach has been to include art.


ED PAULY: "We need kids to master reading and math. Arts gets them excited about being there every day. And the arts use reading and math. The arts are a great way to tie together learning experiences."


And that's the VOA Special English Education Report. I'm Christopher Cruise.




1 instructor
n.指导者,教员,教练
  • The college jumped him from instructor to full professor.大学突然把他从讲师提升为正教授。
  • The skiing instructor was a tall,sunburnt man.滑雪教练是一个高高个子晒得黑黑的男子。
2 retention
n.保留,保持,保持力,记忆力
  • They advocate the retention of our nuclear power plants.他们主张保留我们的核电厂。
  • His retention of energy at this hour is really surprising.人们惊叹他在这个时候还能保持如此旺盛的精力。
3 evaluation
n.估价,评价;赋值
  • I attempted an honest evaluation of my own life.我试图如实地评价我自己的一生。
  • The new scheme is still under evaluation.新方案还在评估阶段。
4 affluent
adj.富裕的,富有的,丰富的,富饶的
  • He hails from an affluent background.他出身于一个富有的家庭。
  • His parents were very affluent.他的父母很富裕。
5 promising
adj.有希望的,有前途的
  • The results of the experiments are very promising.实验的结果充满了希望。
  • We're trying to bring along one or two promising young swimmers.我们正设法培养出一两名有前途的年轻游泳选手。
学英语单词
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abstract verbs
aggregate lymphatic nodule
amener
arithmetic organ
automatic storage
behavioral relationship
best in show,best-in-show
big crunch
brass shouldered cup screw hook
bulkhead piece
calcamea
cathode emission
coherent modulation
colpocystoureterotomy
concentrated constant circuit
contracting chuck
Darius Milhaud
demogorgons
explosion ground zero
faceted peneplain
freightage and cartage
gashed rotor
geologic noise
GLUA
go kaflooey
gramaire
graphite-ebonite electrode
hierarchial scheme
highly-modular operating system
holds against
impersonal relations
investment banking
karyenchyma
krishnamurtis
laminae (I-X)
leichengeburt
ling koes
linguistic turn of philosophicus
local automatic message accounting
magnetic prospecting instrument
make one's bed and lie on it
mandril
mangouras
maximum flat filter
menthyl
mentioned above
micrurus fulviuss
mixoscopias
mortresse
muahahaha
muscle spindles
negotiating
Neosulfon
noble experiment
nonproficient
nonstore retailing
null gate
Numbering-Plan
ocularily
option interface
Oxazimedrine
pacts
perfect foresight
peronospora sparsa berkeley
phenesterine
photoguide
pilot officer
plane reflector antenna
plexiglass-room
polar organization
potter wasps
proteometabolism
pyramid bugle
Quenamari, Nev.de
rabbit-weeds
rampagious
regulated investment company
robotisation
rosewatered
run the eye over
sales-force-composite method
Sao Tomean
sassbox
semirigid cable
side-scanning
statual
stroke type
stromas
summary administration
teentsyweentsy
template bleeding time
tetryl dermatitis
the tension
trend surface analysis
tuyere
weak constitution
z height
zavislan
zerothly