2008年1月17日 星期四

stream (STUDENTS) , US track









stream
(STUDENTS) UK Show phonetics
noun [C] (US track)分班
a group of school students with similar intelligence who are approximately the same age and are taught together:
I'm in the A stream for maths, and the B stream for English.
the top/bottom stream

stream UK Show phonetics
verb [T] (US track)
We start to stream the children in the third form.

streaming UK Show phonetics
noun [U] (US tracking)
Some people object to streaming because it gives an unfair advantage to intelligent children.

(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)

In Chattanooga, Tenn., the schools have abolished their multitrack curriculum, which pointed only a fraction of students toward college. Every student is now on a college track.

Those efforts, and others across the country, reflect a growing sense of urgency among educators that the primary goal of many large high schools serving low-income and urban populations — to move students toward graduation — is no longer enough. Now, educators say, even as they struggle to lift dismal high school graduation rates, they must also prepare the students for college, or some form of post-secondary school training, with the skills to succeed.

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