1、目录微信公众号：顶尖考研(ID:djky66)第一篇01第二篇。08第三篇15第四篇21第五篇27第六篇33第七篇39第八篇45第九篇51第十篇58膠尖子众处爵霸(00s:01)微信公众号【顶尖考研)(ID:diky66)海天教育考研英语基础课程一本通第一篇2015英语二TEXT2For years,studies have found that first-generation college students-those who do not have aparent with a college degree-lag other students on a range of educat
2、ion achievement factorsTheir grades are lower and their dropout rates are higher.But since such students are mostlikely to advance economically if they succeed in higher education,colleges and universitieshave pushed for decades to recruit more of them.This has created aparadoxin that recruitingfirs
3、t-generation students,but then watching many of them fail,means that higher education hascontinued to reproduce and widen,rather than close achievement gap based on social class,according to the depressing beginning of a paper forthcoming in the journal PsychologicalScience.dikv66)But the article is
4、 actually quite optimistic,as it outlines a potential solution to this problem,suggesting that an approach(which involves a one-hour,next-to-no-cost program)can close63 percent of the achievement gap(measured by such factors as grades)between first-generationand other students.The authors of the pap
5、er are from different universities,and their findings are based on a studyinvolving 147 students(who completed the project)at an unnamed private university.Firstgeneration was defined as not having a parent with a four-year college degree.Most of thefirst-generation students(59.I percent)were recipi
6、ents of Pell Grants a federal grant forundergraduates with financial need,while this was true only for 8.6 percent of the students2黄金阅读精讲with at least one parent with a four-year degree.Their thesis-that a relatively modest intervention could have a big impact-was based onthe view that first-generat
7、ion students may be most lacking not in potential but in practicalknowledge about how to deal with the issues that face most college students.They citepast research by several authors to show that this is the gap that must be narrowed toclose the achievement gap.微信公众号：顶尖考研（ID:dk￥6)rMany first-genera
8、tion students struggle to navigate the middle elesseducation,learn the rules of the game,and take advantage of college resources,they write.And this becomes more of a problem when colleges dont talk about the class advantageanddisadvantages of different groups of students.Because US colleges and uni
9、versitiesseldom acknowledge how social class can affect students educational experience manyfirst-generation students lack sight about why they are struggling and do notunderstand howstudents like them can improve.26.Recruiting more first-generation students has.Areduced their dropout ratesBnarrowed the achievement gapCmissed its original purposeDdepressed college students
