广播电视英语短句 第 186 课：国家教育标准-2

Other responsibilities, like education, fall to the individual states. 其他责任，例如教育，交给了各个独立的州。

Local control of education probably was a good idea two hundred years ago. 地方管控教育在200年前或许是一个好主意。

People stayed in the same place and schools knew what students needed to learn. 民众待在同一个地方，学校就清楚学生需要学什么。

But today, people move to different cities. 但如今，民众移居不同的城市，

And some people work at jobs that did not exist even twenty years ago. 并且一些人现在所从事的工作甚至20年前都并不存在。