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Various studies have shown that increased spending on education has not led to measurable improvements in learning. Between 1980

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问题     Various studies have shown that increased spending on education has not led to measurable improvements in learning. Between 1980 and 2008, staff and teachers at US public schools grew roughly twice as fast as students. Yet students showed no additional learning in achievement tests.
    Universities show similar trends of increased administration personnel and costs without greater learning, as documented in Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa’s recent book  Academically Adrift:Limited Learning on College Campuses.
    A survey shows that 63% of employers say that recent college graduates don’t have the skills they need to succeed and 25% of employers say that entry-level writing skills are lacking.
    Some simplistically attribute the decline in our public education system to the drain of skilled students by private schools, but far more significant events were at work.
    Public schools worked well until about the 1970s. In fact, until that time, public schools provided far better education than private ones. It was the underperforming students who were thrown out of public schools and went to private ones.
    A prominent reason public schools did well was that many highly qualified women had few options for working outside the house other than being teachers or nurses. They accepted relatively low pay,difficult working conditions, and gave their very best.
    Having such a large supply of talented women teachers meant that society could pay less for their services. Women’s liberation opened up new professional opportunities for women, and, over time, some of the best left teaching as a career option, bringing about a gradual decline in the quality of schooling.
    Also around that time, regulations, government, and unions came to dictate pay, prevent adjustments, and introduce bureaucratic (官僚的)standard for advancement. Large education bureaucracies and unions came to dominate the landscape, confusing activity with achievement. Bureaucrats regularly rewrite curriculums, talk nonsense about theories of education, and require ever more administrators. The end result has been that, after all the spending, students have worse math and reading skills than both their foreign peers and earlier generations spending far less on education— as all the accumulating evidence now documents.
What was a significant contributor to the past glory of public schools?
选项 A、Well-behaved students.
B、Efficient administration.
C、Talented women teachers.
D、Generous pay for teachers.
答案C
解析 原文第六段第一句指出，公立学校运行良好的一个重要原因是，许多高素质的女性在外工作除了当老师或护士之外别无他选。因此C“才华横溢的女性教师”符合文意，故为答案。
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