By Gilbert Cruz TIME Monday, Jul. 27, 2009
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Hello, summertime! No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' ? wait, actually, yes, there may very well be more of each of those. Sorry, kids. A vacation-crushing theory on how to improve student performance is gaining traction: more time in class. Longer days, longer year. Goodbye, summer.
It's a strategy supported by both President Barack Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan, and cities and states are experimenting with various approaches. Cincinnati, Ohio, for example, in June started giving students in the city's 13 most persistently failing public schools the option of an extra month (a "fifth quarter") of classes. And Ohio Governor Ted Strickland hopes to phase in a similar 20-day extension at all schools statewide.
Duncan, as the nation's educator in chief, has repeatedly plugged a longer school day and year. He views today's standard six-hour, 180-day calendar as way too old school, a holdover from not only 19th century agrarian society but also mid- 20th century Donna Reed -style parenting. "Our children are no longer working in the fields," Duncan says. "And Mom isn't waiting at home at 2:30 with a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich. That just doesn't happen in many American families anymore."
traction 牽引力(견인력), 당기기. strategy 전략. Education Secretary 교육부장관.
approach 방법. persistently 執拗(집요)하게, 끈질기게. quarter 1/4.
phase in 단계적으로 투입하다. extension 연장. statewide 州전체로.
cf. nationwide 전국적으로. educator in chief 교육 首長(수장).
repeatedly 반복적으로. plug 끈질기게 선전하다, 추천하다. view 간주하다.
standard six-hour, 180-day calendar 1일 6시간 수업-180일 수업일수 제도.
way=very(부사). holdover 移越(이월), 넘어 온 것. agrarian 농업의, 토지의.
Donna Reed 자녀양육문제를 많이 다룬 미국 텔레비전 연속극 “The Donna Reed Show”(1958-1966)의 제작자였고 유명한 배우.
B. 구문
- A vacation-crushing theory on . . . longer year. Goodbye, summer.
[학생들의 성적향상을 위한 방안으로 방학을 폐기하자는 이론이 힘을 얻고 있다: 수업시간을 더 늘리자는 것이다. 하루에 더 많은 시간을 가르치고 수업일수를 늘리자. 여름방학이여 안녕!]
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Educators have been eyeing more class time for decades. The landmark 1983 federal report A Nation at Risk, which highlighted the growing achievement gap between the U.S. and other countries, recommended that school districts "strongly consider" a seven-hour day and a 200- to 220-day academic year, which would hew more closely to the schedules in higher-performing Europe and Asia. Although the practice has yet to go mainstream, there's a big push to add school hours in underperforming urban districts. One champion of this movement is Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, who on July 8 introduced the Time for Innovation Matters in Education Act, which would provide federal grants for states and districts to "expand learning time in high-need, high-poverty schools."
One of the nation's most closely watched experiments along these lines is Massachusetts' Expanded Learning Time (ELT) Initiative. Launched in 2006, the program involves 26 low-performing schools that have each added approximately 1½ to 2 hours per day to their school calendar. "We're in the early innings of proving how to extend school hours responsibly and effectively," says Chris Gabrieli, chairman of Massachusetts 2020, which helped originate the ELT idea. "But clearly, focusing on the students that are furthest behind is where it makes the most sense. Middle-class kids, they get a lot more learning time outside of school they get tutors, they get arts programs, they get music programs, they get summer camps."
A. 어휘
eye 눈여겨보다. landmark 획기적인 사건. federal report 연방보고서.
achievement 학업성취도. recommend 권고하다. academic year 학년도.
hew 따르다, 신봉하다. add 증가시키다. grants 交付金(교부금), 下賜金(하사금).
expand 팽창하다. initiative 發議(발의). launch 착수하다, 배를 진수시키다.
approximately 대략. the early innings 초기 단계. furthest behind 가장 많이 뒤쳐진.
tutor 가정교사.
B. 구문
- Although the practice has yet to go mainstream
[수업시간 연장실시는 아직 전국적으로 확산되지는 않았지만]
