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　　学校减少开课提高升学率

　　本月原始

　　有一个学校的升学率(portion)不如另外一条街的一个小型私立学校，然后发现他们的课程有800多私立学校只有200多，所以要减少至少一半的课程数目，这样可以提高student performance和减少要交的稅。

　　本月原始原题

　　The following appeared in an editorial from a newspaper serving the town of Saluda.

　　“The Saluda Consolidated High School offers over 200 different courses from which its students can choose. A much smaller private school down the street offers a basic curriculum of only 80 different courses, but it consistently sends a higher proportion of its graduating seniors on to college than Consolidated does. By eliminating at least half of the courses offered there and focusing on a basic curriculum, we could improve student performance at Consolidated and also save many tax dollars.”

　　参考思路

　　1. 错误类比：学校不同不能一概而论，也许本来私立学校人少，比例自然更高，或者说私立学校经过筛选，本来就只收top students.

　　2. 因果关系：私立学校更好不一定因为开课少，也许是老师有更多工资，老师更负责任等其他原因。

　　3. 无根据假设：减少课程，注重基础课程就能改善学生表现。课程减少可能导致学生的学习积极性降低，特殊才能无法施展，实践能力得不到培养等负面效果。

　　4. 不能根据上大学的人数来判断一个学校好坏，也许S学校更注重技能的培养，许多学生毕业后选择start their own career rather than go to college

　　参考范文

　　In this editorial the author recommends that Saluda’s Consolidated High School eliminate half of its 200 courses and focus primarily on basic curriculum in order to improve student performance and save tax revenues. The author’s recommendation is problematic for several reasons.

　　To begin with, the author assumes that the only relevant difference between Consolidated and the private school is the number of courses offered by each. However, other relevant differences between the schools might account for the difference in the proportion of their graduates who go on to college. For example, the private school’s students might be selected from a pool of gifted or exceptional students, or might have to meet rigorous admission standards whereas Consolidated’s students might be drawn from the community at large with little or no qualification for admission.

　　Next, the author assumes that the proportion of students who go on to college is an overall measure of student performance. While this is a tempting assumption, its truth is by no means obvious. If student excellence is narrowly defined in terms of the student’s ability to gain access to college, this assumption is somewhat reasonable. However, given a broader conception of student excellence that takes into account student’s ability to learn and apply their knowledge to new situations, it is not obvious that college admission is reliable indicator of performance. For example, students in non-academic disciplines could conceivably perform at high levels within these disciplines but nevertheless be unable to meet college admission standards.

　　Finally, the author assumes that savings in tax revenues will result from the reduced costs of funding the paired-down curriculum. This is not necessarily true. For example, it could turn out that both programs serve the same number of students and require the same number of classrooms and teacher.

　　In conclusion, the author has not made a convincing case for the recommendation to eliminate courses at Consolidated and focus on a basic curriculum. To strengthen the conclusion the author would have to provide evidence that Consolidated and the private school were sufficiently similar to warrant the analogy between them. Moreover, the relationship between student performance and college admission and the mechanism whereby savings in tax revenues would be accomplished would have to be clarified.

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