人們對公共教育的看法發(fā)生轉變

所屬教程:輕松英語閱讀

瀏覽:

tingliketang

2023年01月04日

手機版

掃描二維碼方便學習和分享

One of the most important social developments that helped to make possible a shift in thinking about the role of public education
一項重要的、有可能促使人們對公共教育的角色的看法發(fā)生轉變的社會發(fā)展

was the effect of the baby boom of the 1950's and 1960's on the schools.
是本世紀五六十年代的生育高峰對學校的影響。

In the 1920's, but especially in the Depression conditions of the 1930's, the United States experienced a declining birth rate
在20年代，尤其是在30年代后的大蕭條中，美國經(jīng)歷了一次出生率的下降

--- every thousand women aged fifteen to forty-four gave birth to about 118 live children in 1920, 89.2 in 1930, 75.8 in 1936, and 80 in 1940.
--1920年每千名年齡在15歲至45歲的婦女生下大約118個存活嬰兒，1930年89.2個，1936年75.8個，1940年80個。

With the growing prosperity brought on by the Second World War and the economic boom
隨著二戰(zhàn)帶來的持續(xù)繁榮以及隨之而來的經(jīng)濟增長，
that followed it young people married and established households earlier and began to raise larger families than had their predecessors during the Depression.
年輕人比大蕭條中的同齡人更早地結婚成家，而且比前輩養(yǎng)育更大的家庭。
- Birth rates rose to 102 per thousand in 1946,106.2 in 1950, and 118 in 1955.
- 1946年出生率上升到102%，1950年達106%，1955年達118%。
- Although economics was probably the most important determinant, it is not the only explanation for the baby boom.
- 對于生育高峰，經(jīng)濟有可能是最重要的決定因素，但它并不是唯一的解釋。
- The increased value placed on the idea of the family also helps to explain this rise in birth rates.
- 不斷受到重視的家庭觀念也有助于解釋出生率的上升。
- The baby boomers began streaming into the first grade by the mid 1940's and became a flood by 1950.
- 到40年代中期為止，這些生育高峰出生的孩子們開始源源不斷地進入小學一年級。到了1950年，就形成了一股洪流。
- The public school system suddenly found itself overtaxed.
- 公共教育系統(tǒng)突然感到不堪重負了。
  - While the number of schoolchildren rose because of wartime and postwar conditions, these same conditions made the schools even less prepared to cope with the food.
  - 由于戰(zhàn)時和戰(zhàn)后的狀況，使得學齡兒童人數(shù)增加，這些狀況使得學校面對這股洪流更加措手不及。
  - The wartime economy meant that few new schools were built between 1940 and 1945.
  - 戰(zhàn)時經(jīng)濟意味著在1940年到1950年間幾乎沒有建立新學校。
  - Moreover, during the war and in the boom times that followed, large numbers of teachers left their profession for better-paying jobs elsewhere in the economy.
  - 而且，在戰(zhàn)時和隨后的經(jīng)濟增長時期，大量的教師離開崗位去別處從事報酬更為優(yōu)厚的工作。
  - Therefore in the 1950's and 1960's, the baby boom hit an antiquated and inadequate school system.
  - 因此，在五六十年代，生育高峰沖擊著陳舊而不完備的學校體系。
  - Consequently, the "custodial rhetoric"of the 1930's and early 1940's no longer made sense
  - 這樣一來，30年代以及40年代早期，"監(jiān)護理論"就不再有意義了。
    - that is, keeping youths aged sixteen and older out of the labor market by keeping them in school could no longer be a high priority
    - 也就是說，通過使16歲以上的年輕人留在學校不進入勞動力市場的做法再也不是教育機構的優(yōu)先考慮了。
    - for an institution unable to find space and staff to teach younger children aged five to sixteen.
    - 因為教育機構不再能找到場地和教師來教育那些更小的5-16歲的孩子。
    - With the baby boom, the focus of educators and of laymen interested in education inevitably turned toward the lower grades and back to basic academic skills and discipline.
    - 隨著生育高峰，教育者和圈外人士對教育的興趣和焦點，不可避免地轉向了更低的年級和基礎的學術技能和學科上。
    - The system no longer had much interest in offering nontraditional, new, and extra services to older youths.
    - 這個系統(tǒng)不再有濃厚的興趣給較年長的年輕人提供非傳統(tǒng)的新式的和額外的服務。