专题 19 课堂危机--2023年高考英语外刊时文精读精练

2023年高考英语外刊时文精读精练 (19) Education: Crisis in the classroom 教育：课堂危机 主题语境：人与社会 主题语境内容：生活与学习 【外刊原文】（斜体单词为超纲词汇，认识即可；下划线单词为课标词汇，需熟记。） IF HISTORY IS “a race between education and catastrophe”, as H.G. Wells once put it, education seemed until recently to be winning. In 1950 only about half of adults globally had any schooling; now at least 85% do. Between 2000 and 2018, the proportion of school-age children who were not enrolled in classes fell from 26% to 17%. But the rapid rise in attendance masked an ugly truth: many pupils were spending years behind desks but learning almost nothing. In 2019 the World Bank started keeping count of the number of children who still cannot read by the time they finish primary school. It found that less than half of ten-year-olds in developing countries (home to 90% of the world’s children) could read and understand a simple story. Then the pandemic struck and hundreds of millions of pupils were locked out of school. At first, wh