Colleges and accrediting agencies dodged a bullet this summer as Congress, enacting legislation to renew the Higher Education Act, shielded higher education from the U. S. Education Department " s efforts to step up federal regulation of how accreditors and colleges ensure that students are learning. The legislation barred the Education Department from issuing regulations to affect accreditors" standards on student learning outcome. But Lamar Alexander warned in June, college leaders shouldn" t let themselves think that the shooting has stopped. Congress will next renew the Higher Education Act in five years, David Geary told a group of college and accrediting officials this summer, and in "the absence of good answers " between now and then about how higher education can prove its effectiveness, increased federal intervention is sure to follow. To try to start that conversation quickly, the Council for Higher Education Accreditation on Monday held the first of what will be a series of national forums about the future of higher education self-regulation. Numerous critics from outside higher education have expressed doubt that the higher education industry, through the peer-review-based system of accreditation, can effectively regulate its own quality and effectiveness, given that accrediting agencies are governed by the institutions being scrutinized. But Monday" s discussion was designed, CHEA officials said, not to beat that drum but to brainstorm about what higher education officials must do to ensure that self-regulation survives. " We need to marshal ammunition we could use to defend the system of self-regulation," said A. Lee Fritschler, a professor of public policy at George Mason University and former college president and U. S. assistant secretary for postsecondary education. " I feel like I am singing to the choir in this room," Molly C. Broad, president of the American Council on Education, said at the start of remarks in which she, like virtually all the speakers, made clear a preference to limit further federal incursion into higher education quality control.

反对形式主义

He spent all his allowance, ran up a very large number of bills and was accordingly______ debt.

城乡协调发展

穷困的生活使我懂事早。

汉传佛教

B英译汉/B

全球卫星定位系统

endure present hardships to revive

grassrootism

Psychology is the study of the mind and mental activities. For example, psychologists are interested in why some things make you sad, but others make you happy. They want to know why some people are shy, but others are quite talkative. They also want to know why people do the things that they do. They test intelligence. Psychologists deal with the minds and behavior of people. Your mind consists of all your feelings , thoughts, and ideas. It is the result of one part of the brain called the cerebrum. Your behavior is the way you act or conduct yourself. Examples of behavior include shouting, crying, laughing, and sleeping. Several people have been instrumental in the field of psychology. Wilhelm Width set up the first psychological laboratory in Leipzig, Germany, in 1879. Ivan Pavlov, a Russian, is noted for his experiments with dogs in which he studied their reflexes and reactions. Around 1900, Sigmund Freud stated his theory that people try to hold back any memories or thoughts that they believed were not good. Psychologists should not be confused with psychiatrists. Psychiatrists deal only with mental illness. They are medical doctors who treat people.

维护国家核心利益

The context for Occupy Wall Street and proposals to tax the rich is the broader issue of economic inequality. For years, liberal politicians, academics and pundits have complained about growing inequality, but their protests barely resonated with the public. When most people are doing okay, the fact that some people are doing better does not arouse much anger. No more. When many people do worse, or fear they might, the rich inspire resentment and envy. Glaring inequalities that once seemed tolerable become offensive.By and large, Americans regard the rich the way they do the poor. There are the "deserving" and the "undeserving". The deserving pioneer technologies, manage vibrant businesses or excel at something. Few resent the wealth of Bill Gates or Oprah Winfrey. By contrast, the "undeserving" rich succeed through self-dealing or activities lacking broad social value.What"s happening now is that the more rich are being disparaged as "undeserving". Blamed for the financial crisis, Wall Street types top the list. Corporate chief executives stir similar ire.There are many theories about why inequality has increased, though no consensus: New technologies reward the highly skilled; globalization depresses factory wages; eroded union power does the same; employer-paid health insurance squeezes take-home pay; a "winner-take-all" society confers huge rewards on an elite of celebrities, sports stars and business leaders.The trouble is that the wealthy don"t fit the stereotypes: They aren"t all pampered CEOs, hotshot investment bankers, pop stars and athletes. Many own small and medium-sized companies. Reid would pay for Obama"s jobs plan by taxing the people who are supposed to create jobs. Does it make sense?The backlash against the rich is the start of debate, not the end. Are the rich to be punished for succeeding or merely asked to pay their "fair" share? Who is wealthy or who"s just well-off? If taxes do rise, what approach would best preserve incentives for hard work, investment and risk-taking? However measured, the rich are besieged; the attacks almost certainly will intensify.

DINK

Is the world headed for a food crisis? India, Mexico and Yemen have seen food riots this year. What" s the cause for these shortages and price hikes? Expensive oil, for the most part. The United Nations food and Agriculture Organization(FAO)reported that, at nearly $ 100 a barrel, the price of oil has sent the cost of food imports skyrocketing this year. Add in escalating crop prices, the FAO warned, and a direct consequence could soon be an increase in global hunger—and, as a consequence , increased social unrest. What" s more, worldwide food reserves are at their lowest in 35 years, so prices are likely to stay high for the foreseeable future.On the demand side, one of the key issues is biofuels. Biofuels, made from food crops such as corn, sugar cane, and palm oil, are seen as easing the world" s dependence on gasoline or diesel. But when crude oil is expensive, as it is now, these alternative energy sources can also be sold at market-competitive prices, rising steeply in relation to petroleum. With one-quarter of the US corn harvest in 2010 diverted towards biofuel production, the attendant rose in cereal prices has already had an impact on the cost and availability of food, Critics worry that the gold rush toward biofuels is taking away food from the hungry Leaders in the biofuel industry respond that energy COSTS are more to blame for high food prices than biofuels " Energy is the Mood of the world, so if oil goes up then other commodities follow," Claus Sauter, CEO of German bioenergy firms Verbio said. Others argue that cleaner-burning biofuels could help stem the effects of climate change, another factor i-dentified by the FAO as causing food shortages. Analysts note that scientists believe climate change could be behind recent extreme weather patterns, including catastrophic floods, heat waves and drought. All can diminish food harvests and stockpiles. But so can market forces.

United Nations peace-keeping force

官二代

Read the following passage and then answer the questions either by writing briefly or completing the gaps in the sentences.(15 points) The survival of traditional elements in novel and emerging value systems is unavoidable and difficult to control when the assimilation of the old into the new actually occurs. Hence, it would be unfair to attribute the absence of a carefully formulated theory of human excellence suitable to the cultural climate of contemporary man exclusive to the undetected religious background of the defenders of recent humanism. The reluctance to come to grips with the problems which the quest for excellence poses has its roots partly in the modern interpretations of the place of the scientific method in ethics, and partly in the current views about human nature. The former points to the demand to keep ethical generalizations as open and provisional in character as scientific hypotheses are, with the obvious merit of securing for ethics freedom from dogmatism and preserving in its conclusions the pluralistic and open-textured qualities of experience. The latter has permitted ethical theory to bypass thorny issues that attend the systematic effort to base substantive considerations and definite valuational prescriptions on a theory of man supported by rigorous scientific evidence. The consensus among behavioral scientists has been for quite some time that the nature of man is to have no nature. In the face of such formidable obstacles from the sciences of man, the science of the good life was never launched. Given the widespread prevalence of this fluid conception of human nature, it is easy to see why efforts to formulate a system of humanistic excellences within the scope of substantive ethics have been by and large inhibited. It is common knowledge that professional philosophers have cautiously avoided even mentioning the existence of such an enterprise in their list of endeavors. The only course left open to the daring advocates of nonreligious substantive ethics was mainly one which led to a soft and scientifically inoffensive "open-textured" humanism of fulfillments. The philosophy on which the view rested was as derivative as the utilitarian and pragmatic features which constituted its basic appeal. What has been missing all along was the bold effort needed to give the new humanism the respectable objectivity that only a science of the good life could provide. But in the absence of a firm foundation the gospel of plural fulfillments is subject to the same treatment given to loud our critical faculties. One thing is clear: the new humanism has demonstrated its power to persuade. What the time calls for is more wisdom. It is precisely on this point that the humanism of classical Greece has demonstrated its relevance, but not every humanist is prepared to agree with me on this issue.

B汉译英/B

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