特别广播英语第 218 课：Changes to Come in U. S. Education 美国教育将要发生的变化-5

Indeed, competition and choice are already beginning to infiltrate the school system. 实际上，竞争和选择已经开始渗透到学校的体制中。

Private schools and colleges have shown an unusual ability to survive and develop during a period of rising costs and dropping enrollments elsewhere. 私立中学和大学在其他地方学费上涨，入学人数下降的时候展示出了非凡的生存和发展能力。

All this presents, of course, a true threat to the public school establishment. 当然所有这一切对公立教育体制构成了真正的威胁。

But economics, student needs and our new understanding of how people learn are bound to break the traditional education monopoly just as trucks and airplanes broke the monopoly of the railroads, and computers and "chips" are breaking the telephone monopoly. 但是经济情况、学生的需要以及我们对人们如何学习的理解肯定会打破传统的教育垄断，就像火车和飞机打破铁路的垄断、计算机和芯片正在打破电话的垄断一样。

In the next 10 or 15 years we will almost certainly see strong pressures to make schools responsible for thinking through what kind of learning methods are appropriate for each child. 在下一个10年或15年里，我们几乎会肯定地看到强大的压力迫使学校负责思考什么样的学习方法适合每一个学生这个问题。

We sill almost certainly see great pressure, from parents and students alike, for result-focused education and for accountability in meeting objectives set for individual students. 我们几乎肯定地看到同样来看学生的和家长们的压力，要求提供注重结果的教育，要求负责让每个学生达到所制定的目标，

The continuing professional education of highly educated adults will become a third tier in addition to undergraduate and professional or graduate work. 对受过高层次教育的成年人的继续职业教育将是除本科生以及职业或研究生教育之后的第三种教育。

Above all, attention will shift back to schools and education as the central capital investment and infrastructure of a "knowledge society." 更重要的是，注意力将转回到学校和教育上，把它们看作是"知识社会"的重要的基本投资和基础结构。