The Harvard Graduate School of Education released areport on Wednesday endorsed by dozens of otherschools that proposes radical changes to the waycolleges evaluate prospective students.
The proposal has three specific recommendationsto achieve this goal:
這份提議列出了達成這一目標的三點具體建議:
1.Promoting more meaningful contributions toothers, community service, and engagement withthe public good.
1.要求學生做一些更有意義的貢獻:比如對他人、對社區進行服務,或者參與公益事業。
2.Assessing students' ethical engagement and contributions to others in ways that reflectvarying types of family and community contributions across race, culture, and class.
2.評估學生的道德參與以及對其他人的貢獻:跨越種族、文化和階級的反映不同類型的家庭和社區貢獻。
3.Redefining achievement in ways that level the playing field for economically diverse studentsand reduce excessive achievement pressure.
3.重新定義成功:為不同經濟實力的學生提供公平的競爭環境,減少為獲得過多成就帶來的壓力。
Despite colleges' efforts to have diverse student bodies, students from poor families are stillrare on the campuses of elite colleges in America, as Inside Higher Ed has reported.
The report also noted that community service should be "meaningful" and "sustained" ratherthan an activity that students participate in to boost their chances of getting accepted intocollege.
這份報告還提到,社區服務應該是“有意義的、持續的”,而不是學生為了被大學錄取而參與的一項活動。
While the Harvard report admits that admissions departments are unlikely to take itsrecommendations wholesale, it does hope to "create a healthier balance in young peoplebetween their self-concerns and their investment in others and the larger world."