早起的鸟儿吃得好？.docVIP

早起的鸟儿吃得好？ 　　在中国，社会、学校、家长一直在呼吁给学生减负，而减负的措施之一就是减少每天的上课时间。而大洋彼岸的美国，居然有人想要延长学生每天的上学时间。这又是怎么回事呢？ 　　Host： Longer school days―your kids may not like them， but more and more policymakers do. From New York and Arizona， there’s a push to lengthen the public school day， but the costs can be prohibitively expensive. One school in Connecticut is experimenting with ways to make a longer school day interesting and affordable. 　　Reporter： It’s early， 7：30 in the morning， the sun is still rising. And already， the kids here at Pulaski Elementary School in Meriden， Connecticut， are dancing. There’s stomping and hopping and a general getting the shakies out， as fifth-grader Jaelinne Davis says. 　　Davis： If we’re like hyper， if we do this， then we can get better at， like， staying mellow and stuff like that. Reporter： By 9 a.m.， Jaelinne will be back at her normal school day with its core curriculum that’s graded by a state test at the end of the year. But until then， she’ll have 80 minutes of exercising and breakfast and so-called enrichment classes. These are things like math， computer games， robotics， game making and hands-on science lessons， all stuff that’s fun but has learning snuck into it. Dan Coffey， the principal here， says it’s about making longer school days less grueling. 　　Coffey： We want it to be fun and engaging， especially in this morning hour. You know， if I had to send my children to school to do more test prep or more 1）penmanship or more just plain old reading and writing， I’m not so interested. 　　Reporter： That plain old reading and writing is what educators call “academic time.” Advocates for longer school days say kids do best when you increase a blend of enrichment classes with straight academic time and also extra collaboration time for teachers. 　　Chris Gabrieli is the co-founder of The National Center on Time Learning， a nonprofit campaigning to make school longer. He says academic time is important， but enrichment time provides a wellrounded educa