KIPP seems like the kind of school in the kind of neighborhood with the kind of students that would make educators despair KIPP学校就是在这样的一个地区里,由这样的孩子组成的学校,而这样的学校会让教育工作者绝望。
There are now more than fifty KIPP schools across the United States, with more on the way. 现在美国已经有50多家KIPP学校,但按照这种趋势发展,将来还会有更多家。 The KIPP program represents one of those promising new educ
But in western agriculture, the opposite is true. Unless the field is that left fallow every few years, the soil becomes exhausted. Every winter, fields are empty. 但是在西方的农作习惯中,情况刚好相反。每隔几年土地就得闲置一
The first graders from the wealthiest homes have a 32-point advantage over the first graders from the poorest homes, and by the way, first graders from poor homes in Baltimore are really poor. 来自富裕家庭的一年级学生以32分的优势高于
Let's start with school-year gains. That is how many points students' test score's rise from the time they started classes in September to the time they stopped in June. 让我们从学校这一年所获得的分数开始。下面表格中的数据显示
Think back to Alex Williams, the nine-year-old whom Annette Lareau studied. 我们回头再看亚力克斯威廉姆斯,这个安妮特拉里奥研究的9岁孩子, His parents believe in concerted cultivation. He gets taken to museums and gets en
But think back to that second settled statistics that showed what happened between September and June. Schools work. 回头看看第二个表格,显示的是9月到6月之间产生的差距。 The only problem with school, for the kids who aren't a
Similarly, the pioneer of public education in Massachusetts, Horace Mann, 相似的是,马萨诸塞州的公共教育倡导者霍勒斯曼相信, believed that working students too hard would create a most pernicious influence upon character and
The extra time gave Corcoran the chance to make mathematics meaningful: to let his students see the clear relationship between effort and reward. 增加的那些时间不但让科科伦的学生觉得数学有意义,也让他们清楚地看到努力和
They start school at seven twenty-five, David Levin says of the students at the Bronx KIPP academy. 他们7点25分上课,布朗克斯KIPP学院学生大卫李文说: They all do a course called thinking skills until seven fifty-five. 我们所有的
The beginning is hard, he went on. By the end of the day, they are restless. Part of it is endurance, part of it is motivation. 一开始很难,他继续说:他们一整天都坐立不安。因为他们缺乏耐力和动力, Part of it is incen
I wake up at 5:45 a.m. to get a head start, she says. I brush my teeth, shower. I get some breakfast at school if I'm running late. 为了早到学校,我早上5点45分起床,她说。接着刷牙、洗澡。如果我起晚了,我会在学校吃
She spoke in a matter-of-fact way of children who have no way of knowing how unusual this situation is. 她用一种孩童特有的实话实说的方式讲述这一切,他们无从知道自己所处的环境是如何的不寻常。 She had the hour
Here is Marita again, in a passage that is little short of heartbreaking: 下面是玛丽塔又一些让人辛酸的描述: When we first started fifth grade, I used to have contact with one of the girls from my old school, 五年级时,我和一个
How could that be a bad bargain? 而这种条件互换在什么情况下会失败呢? Everything we have learned in Outliers says that success follows a predictable course. 在这本书中,所有我们看到的成功都是有迹可循, It's not
Good news or glad tidings is a translation of the Greek eu-angelion, from which we get the word evangelical. 好消息或愉快的消息是希腊语eu-angelion的翻译,从而我们得到了单词evangelical。 And this good and happy news of the m
Now about 30 years after Christ's death on the cross, that is, around 60 years after his birth in AD 60, a cruel emperor was ruling over the Roman empire. 在耶稣钉死于十字架之后的大约30年,也就是说在他出生后60年公元60年左右
One day a terrible fire broke out in Rome which, burning day and night, consumed house after house, district after district, 当时在罗马发生了一场大火,它烧了几天几夜,烧毁了一排排房屋、一个个街区, and made hundred
The Christians had often said that this world must end so that a better, purer world might take its place. 基督徒们曾常常说,这个世界必须毁灭,好让一个更好的、更纯洁的世界诞生。 Of course, you and I know that they m
The walls were painted with simple pictures inspired by Bible stories: pictures of Daniel in the Lion's Den, 墙上画着极简单的圣经故事图画。但以理(四大先知之一,《旧约》中有《但以理书》一篇)在狮子坑里,
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