[00:00.00]如果您也喜欢 恒星英语学习网 www.hxen.com 请与您的朋友分享...This is the VOA Special English [00:02.90]Education Report. [00:04.84]Girls and boys usually [00:07.28]attend classes together [00:09.22]in American public schools. [00:11.51]But there are some [00:13.28]single-sex programs, [00:14.88]like a girls public school [00:17.51]in Dallas, Texas. [00:19.31]It opened in two thousand four. [00:22.39]The students have done well enough [00:25.99]that the school system is now [00:28.40]opening a school for boys. [00:30.70]The Barack Obama Male [00:33.89]Leadership Academy [00:35.48]is part of the Dallas [00:37.47]Independent School District. [00:39.41]The school year begins Monday. [00:41.44]Academy Principal Nakia Douglas [00:44.93]has been giving tours to incoming [00:47.46]students and their parents. [00:49.82]NAKIA DOUGLAS: "This wing here [00:51.56]will be our electives [00:52.66]-- specifically all of our [00:54.40]foreign languages: [00:55.41]Latin, Mandarin, Spanish. [00:57.07]Our debate will be housed here." [00:59.11]Mr. Douglas says [01:00.42]he was the kind of student [01:02.06]that the school is seeking. [01:04.06]NAKIA DOUGLAS: "I was born [01:05.23]and raised in south Dallas [01:06.27]by a single parent. [01:07.39]I was a neighborhood child. [01:09.07]I was that child that [01:11.42]-- I would work if I knew [01:12.66]the teacher believed in me. [01:13.86]But, at the same time, [01:15.05]I had a hunger and desire for more. [01:16.50]A lot of our young men [01:18.34]have that hunger, [01:19.58]desire and ability now." [01:21.08]Educational researchers say [01:23.56]boys learn in different ways [01:25.45]and mature more slowly than girls, [01:29.31]and are more likely to leave school. [01:31.94]Being in class with the opposite sex [01:35.23]can also take attention [01:37.02]away from learning. [01:38.88]Kendall Keeter thinks the boys school [01:41.44]will be good for his son the way [01:44.23]the girls school was for his daughter. [01:46.48]KENDALL KEETER: "Our thought [01:47.54]was to also give our son an opportunity [01:49.83]that would best prepare him [01:51.43]for college in the same manner [01:53.27]she was prepared, and I can't imagine [01:55.27]any other option that would [01:57.41]have prepared her better." [01:58.52]Another parent, Madeline Hayes, [02:00.87]also likes the idea of a publicly [02:03.85]funded school for boys. [02:05.88]MADELINE HAYES: "This is something, [02:07.04]as cheesy as it sounds, [02:08.63]that I've always dreamed about, [02:10.07]that there will be a boys school [02:11.43]that doesn't charge twenty-five [02:13.08]thousand dollars a year, [02:14.24]but would give the same academics, [02:16.67]the same level of interaction [02:18.83]and leadership." [02:19.88]The school is for grades six through nine. [02:22.96]It will offer college [02:24.85]preparatory classes and [02:26.35]leadership courses even on weekends. [02:29.74]Principal Douglas says [02:31.92]the boys will be urged [02:33.48]to support one another. [02:35.78]NAKIA DOUGLAS: "Our young men grow together. [02:37.13]But all of our young men we call 'brother.' [02:38.72]So it may be Brother Malyk Davis [02:41.51]or Brother Samuel Keeter. [02:43.81]The young men understand [02:45.52]they are their brother's keeper. [02:47.87]And so the young men [02:49.01]are really learning to be responsible [02:51.35]not only for themselves, [02:52.44]but also for their brothers here [02:54.19]at the campus." [02:55.03]Madeline Hayes' son Kelvin is twelve. [02:57.47]He will be entering the seventh grade. [03:00.26]KELVIN HAYES: "I've always [03:01.26]wanted a higher academic purpose, [03:03.45]always want somebody to challenge me [03:05.49]when I make my mistakes. [03:06.70]I can learn from them. [03:07.84]And then they have classes like science, [03:10.03]computer and robotics, [03:11.45]and I enjoy especially robotics [03:13.34]and building new technology, [03:15.08]because when I grow up [03:16.32]I want to be an engineer." [03:17.38]Fourteen year-old Malyk Davis [03:19.78]will study cooking, or "culinary arts," [03:22.36]at the Obama Academy in Dallas. [03:25.20]He has already learned [03:27.49]from a professional chef. [03:29.33]However, he was not so sure [03:32.12]he wanted to attend a school [03:34.31]only for boys, and he heard [03:36.95]bad things about the area. [03:38.84]MALYK DAVIS: "But once I began [03:40.33]to looking into more about the options [03:43.72]that they were having, [03:45.35]I think I'm really going to enjoy this. [03:47.69]It's going to be a long and tough road, [03:49.74]but as long as I'm graduating [03:51.19]in twenty fifteen, [03:52.23]that's all that matters to me." [03:53.38]Most students who want to be accepted [03:56.32]into the Obama Academy [03:57.98]will need to have good grades [03:59.92]and pass a number of tests. [04:02.21]But ten to fifteen percent [04:04.49]will not have to meet [04:06.53]all of the entrance requirements. [04:08.63]Principal Nakia Douglas says [04:11.71]they will have to show [04:12.90]they have a strong character [04:14.63]and a desire to learn. [04:16.93]And that's the VOA Special English [04:20.07]Education Report. [04:21.41]What do you think of [04:23.25]same-sex education? [04:25.04]Tell us at wwww.hxen.com. [04:29.42]I'm Christopher Cruise.如果您也喜欢 恒星英语学习网 www.hxen.com 请与您的朋友分享...