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หนังสือที่จะพาคุณลงรายละเอียด ว่าเหตุอันใดจึงปรากฏความเป็นตัวคุณเช่นนี้ได้ ที่ทำๆอยู่อย่างเคยชินส่งคุณไปไหนได้บ้างหลังตาย และแท้จริงแล้วการที่ยังมีชีวิตคือคุณค่าระดับไหน
เสียงอ่านโดย: อลิสา ฉัตรานนท์
Importance of New Findings About Charter Schools Argued
ฟังคำบรรยายThis is the VOA Special English Education Report.
A new school year is beginning in the United States — and with it comes new debate about charter schools. These are publicly financed but privately operated schools. Charter schools can be found in most of the fifty states and Washington, D.C.
The Department of Education says more than one million students attend charter schools. That compares to almost fifty million in traditional public schools.
A charter school might be fully independent or connected to the local school system. It might be operated by a non-profit group or a profit-making company.
In any case, charter schools do not have to follow all of the same rules as traditional public schools. They have greater freedom to decide what to teach and how to teach.
Class sizes may be smaller in charter schools, but the teachers often have less power through unions than in traditional schools.
The Bush administration supports charter schools as a choice for parents whose local schools are bad. But some education officials, parent groups and unions argue that the money spent on charter schools could help traditional schools improve.
Critics say studies so far have not shown enough gains for charter schools to justify the possible loss of resources from traditional schools. They say a study released last week by the Education Department only strengthened their arguments. Supporters of charter schools, however, found much to criticize in the study.
The study used test scores from the two thousand three National Assessment of Educational Progress. The researchers compared the scores of fourth grade students in charter schools with those in traditional public schools.
The traditional schools had an average score five points higher in reading and almost six points higher in mathematics than the charter schools.
But the study showed that charter schools connected with a public school system performed about the same as traditional schools. Fully independent charter schools had lower scores by comparison.
Supporters of charter schools say the results show nothing about student progress over time or about individual schools. And they say charter school students may not do well on tests because they came from terrible traditional schools.
And that’s the VOA Special English Education Report, written by Nancy Steinbach. You can read and listen to archives of our reports at voaspecialenglish.com. I’m Steve Ember.
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Foreign Student Series: Starting Out
ฟังคำบรรยายThis is the VOA Special English Education Report.
This week, in our Foreign Student Series, we discuss the first steps to studying in the United States.
Step one is to visit an American educational advising center. There are more than four hundred of these offices around the world. You can find them through the State Department Web site for international students. We will give that address later.
Or you can ask the public affairs office at a United States embassy to tell you where to find the nearest advising center.
Step two is to start gathering information about the different choices in higher education programs in the United States.
Some schools, for example, offer one-year certificate programs. These are in subjects like computer programming, public relations and administrative work.
Junior or community colleges offer a two-year associate degree. These programs can prepare students for skilled jobs. Or, if students want to continue their education, many universities accept this work as the first two years toward a bachelor’s degree.
To get a bachelor’s degree, students traditionally take general subjects during the first two years. These include areas like history, literature, mathematics and science. After that they take classes in their major area of study.
At the graduate school level, a master’s degree can take up to three years to complete. A doctorate can take four to six years. But some medical specialties, for example, require years more of study.
Whatever you choose, educational advisers say you should begin to plan at least two years before you want to start classes in the United States.
The address of the State Department Web site for international students is educationusa.state.gov.
If you would like to ask us a question about education in the United States, send it to special@voanews.com. We cannot help with individual cases. But we might be able to answer a general question on the air as our Foreign Student Series continues.
And that’s the VOA Special English Education Report, written by Nancy Steinbach. Transcripts and audio files of each report in our series will appear on our Web site, voaspecialenglish.com. Next week, the subject is the difference between a college and a university. I’m Doug Johnson.
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