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在高中修大学课程 美国理想主义教育实验?? 2014-12-15 13:13:30|??分类： 教育 |??标签： |字号大中小?订阅 ALONG his block in Newark’s West Ward, where drugs are endemic 特有的，地方性的，风土的and the young residents talk about shootings枪击事件 with alarming nonchalance冷淡的，漠不关心的，无动于衷的, Najee Little is known as the smart kid. He got all A’s his sophomore二年级学生 year, breezing微风 through math 这里形容数学and awin飞翔，使得敬畏?his English teachers. His mother, a day care worker日托所的工作人员, and father, who does odd jobs to make ends meet,打折零工?have high aspirations for him. They want him to earn a college degree. So last year, when Bard College opened an early college high school in Newark for disadvantaged students with dreams of a bachelor’s学士学位 degree, he was sure he’d do well there. He wrote his first long paper on这里是指论文的主题 Plato’s柏拉图的“Republic,” 《理想国》expecting a top grade期望能够获得高分. He got a D minus减去，负号. “Honestly,” he recalled回忆, “I was kind of discouraged.” That paper marked标志着 the beginning of a trying academic path that would both excite and disillusion?幻灭him. The past two years have been peppered?胡椒粉，加胡椒粉的with?这里是点缀的意思some promising有前途的 grades — an A in environmental science环境科学 — and some dooziesadj.美俚非常出色的人（物）的，非常显眼的;?. He failed失败，这里指在考试中不合格“Africa in World History” and squeaked?尖叫by in calculus微积分学（在微积分学中尖叫，表示微积分学也只是勉强通过）. Mostly, he came to realize that渐渐意识到 getting into college and staying there would be a herculean艰巨的task. There was tricky?棘手的，狡猾的grammar, hard math and tons of homework. There was the neighborhood cacophony?刺耳的声音to tune out and the call of his Xbox微软开发的电子游戏平台. （要忽略邻居制造的刺耳噪音，还要抵挡游戏机的诱惑）And there was the fact that no one in his house could help him. “My work is more advanced?than anyone at home has experienced,” he said. And that, it turns out, is why the school had accepted him. Across the country in communities?社区like Newark, the early college high school model is being lauded?称赞，赞美as a way to provide low-income students with a road map to and through college. 进入大学并且读完大学的途径According to the most recent figure