異類之不一樣的成功啟示錄 第180期:假期是個問題

But think back to that second settled statistics that showed what happened between September and June. Schools work.

回頭看看第二個表格，顯示的是9月到6月之間產(chǎn)生的差距。

The only problem with school, for the kids who aren't achieving, is that there isn't enough of it.

學校唯一要面對的問題是，學生沒有進步，只是因為安排的作業(yè)不夠多。

Alexander, in fact, has done a very simple calculation to demonstrate what would happen if the children of Baltimore went to school year-round.

事實上，亞歷山大只是做了一個簡單的計算，反映了巴爾的摩的孩子們?nèi)绻徽甓忌蠈W將會由怎樣的結(jié)果。

The answer is that poor kids and wealthy kids would, by the end of elementary school, be doing math and reading at almost the same level.

答案就是，窮孩子和富孩子在小學畢業(yè)時數(shù)學和閱讀達到同等水平。

Suddenly the causes of Asian math superiority become even more obvious. Students in Asian schools don't have long summer vacations. Why could they?

突然之間，亞洲人在數(shù)學方面的優(yōu)越性變得更明顯了。亞洲的學生沒有很長的暑假，為什么他們沒有呢？

Cultures that believe that the route to success lies in rising before dawn 360 days a year are scarcely going to give their children three straight months off in the summer.

他們的文化認為一年之計在于春，一日之計在于晨，這是通往成功的道路，所以不可能給孩子放整整3個月的暑假。

The school year in the United States is, on average, about 180 days long. The South Korean school year is 220 days long.

美國的學年平均只有180天，韓國的學校有220天，

The Japanese school year is 243 days long.

日本的學校是243天。

One of the questions asked of test takers on a recent math test given to students around the world, for example,

在最近給全球?qū)W生的一個數(shù)學測試中，參試者被問到的問題之一就是，

Was how many of the questions they were asked in algebra, calculus, and geometry involved subject matter that they had previously covered in class.

在他們以前的代數(shù)、微積分、幾何科目問題中有多少是學過的？

For Japanese twelfth graders, the answer was 92 percent. That's the value of going to school 243 days a year.

日本12年級學生的答案是92%，這就是一年243天學制的價值。

You have the time to learn everything that needs to be learned- and less time to unlearn it.

你必須要有時間學習所有需要學習的知識——沒有時間讓你閑下來什么也不學。

For American twelfth graders, the comparable figure was 54 percent.

而對于美國12年級的學生來說,問題的答案是54%。

For its poorest students, American doesn't have a school problem. It has a summer vacation problem, and that's the problem the KIPP schools set out to solve.

對于美國最窮的學生來說，上學不是問題，暑假卻是個問題，這個問題也是KIPP學校需要解決的，

They decided to bring the lessons of rice paddy to the American inner city.

他們決定將稻田的故事拿出來教育美國的城市孩子。