? ?One-room schools are part of the
heritage of the United States,and the mention of them makes people feel a
longing for“the way things were.”One room schools are an endangered
species(种类),however.For more than a hundred years,one-room schools have been
systematically shut down and their students sent away to centralized schools.As
recently as 1930 there were 149,000 one-room schools in the United States.By
1970 there were 1,800.Today,of the nearly 800 remaining one-room schools,more
than 350 are in Nebraska.The rest are spread through a few other states that
have on their roadmaps wide-open spaces between towns. ? ?Now that
there are hardly any left,educators are beginning to think that maybe there is
something yet to be learned from one-room schools,something that served the
pioneers that might serve as well today.Progressive educators have come up with
new names like“peer-group teaching”and“multi-age grouping”for educational
procedures that Occur naturally in the one-room schools.In a one-room school the
children teach each other because the teacher is busy part of the time teaching
someone else.A fourth grader can work at a fifth-grade level in math and a
third-grade level in English without the bad name associated with being left
back or the pressures of being skipped(超过)ahead.A youngster with a learning
disability can find his or her own level without being separated from the other
pupils.A few hours in a small school that has only one classroom and it becomes
clear why so many parents feel that one of the advantages of living in Nebraska
is that their children have to go to a one-room school.
One-room schools are in danger of disappearing because
? ?One-room schools are part of the
heritage of the United States,and the mention of them makes people feel a
longing for“the way things were.”One room schools are an endangered
species(种类),however.For more than a hundred years,one-room schools have been
systematically shut down and their students sent away to centralized schools.As
recently as 1930 there were 149,000 one-room schools in the United States.By
1970 there were 1,800.Today,of the nearly 800 remaining one-room schools,more
than 350 are in Nebraska.The rest are spread through a few other states that
have on their roadmaps wide-open spaces between towns. ? ?Now that
there are hardly any left,educators are beginning to think that maybe there is
something yet to be learned from one-room schools,something that served the
pioneers that might serve as well today.Progressive educators have come up with
new names like“peer-group teaching”and“multi-age grouping”for educational
procedures that Occur naturally in the one-room schools.In a one-room school the
children teach each other because the teacher is busy part of the time teaching
someone else.A fourth grader can work at a fifth-grade level in math and a
third-grade level in English without the bad name associated with being left
back or the pressures of being skipped(超过)ahead.A youngster with a learning
disability can find his or her own level without being separated from the other
pupils.A few hours in a small school that has only one classroom and it becomes
clear why so many parents feel that one of the advantages of living in Nebraska
is that their children have to go to a one-room school.
One-room schools are in danger of disappearing because
A.there has been a trend towards centralization. B.they cannot get top students. C.they exist only in one state. D.children have to teach themselves.