Ask an American schoolchild what he or
she is learning in school these days and you might even get a reply, provided
you ask it in Spanish. But don’t bother, here’s the answer. Americans nowadays
are not learning any of the things that we learned in our day, like reading and
writing. Apparently these are considered fusty old subjects, invented by white
males to oppress women and minorities. What are they learning In a Vermont college town I found the answer sitting in a toy store book rack, next to typical kids’ books like "Heather Has Two Mommies and Daddy is ’Dysfunctional’". It’s a teacher’s guide called "Happy To Be Me", subtitled "Building Self-Esteem". Self-esteem as it turns out, is a big subject in American classrooms. Many American schools see building it as important as teaching reading and writing. They call it "whole l A. the writer is using direct speech B. the writer is questioning the education concept C. the words quoted have been extracted from a translation D. the writer is quoting from another source 更多"Passage 3 Ask an American"的相关试题: [单项选择]Passage 3
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