英國人也搞重點高校了！梅姨新政又被狂批鬥

Just six counties across England are suitable for Theresa May’s controversial new wave of grammar schools, a new report warns.
一份新報告指出，特麗莎·梅頗具爭議的新浪潮運動——文法學校只適合英國的6個郡。

A study by the Education Policy Institute found only a handful of England’s 152 local authority areas would be appropriate for new grammars, based on the Government’s own criteria.
教育政策研究所的一項研究發現，在英國152個地方行政區域中，基於政府本身的判斷標準，只有一小部分行政區域適合推行新語法學校。

Just six fit the bill - Solihull, Essex, North Yorkshire, Dorset, Northamptonshire and North Somerset.
只有6個郡滿足要求，分別是索利哈爾、艾塞克斯、北約克郡、多塞特、北安普敦郡以及北薩默塞特。

The report concluded that it would be hard for the Government to find suitable areas for new grammar schools, and added: “Expanding existing grammar schools is likely in a majority of such areas to reduce the average attainment of disadvantaged pupils and is therefore unlikely to improve social mobility.”
該報告指出，對政府而言，要找一個合適的地區建新文法學校會很難。該報告還補充道：“在大多數這樣的區域中，擴建現存的文法學校可能會降低貧困學生的平均入學率，因此，（擴建現存的文法學校）不可能提高社會流動性。”

The think tank suggested: “A more promising approach in the most disadvantaged areas may be to focus on increasing the quality of existing non-selective school places.”
智囊團建議：“在多數貧困地區，更有前景的方法可能是集中注意力於提高現存非選拔式學校的教學質量。”

A spokesman for the Department for Education said: “This report is highly speculative.”
教育部發言人指出：“這份報告有很大的不確定性。”

“Independent organisations have recognised the transformative impact grammar schools can have on the lives of disadvantaged young people.”
“因爲有獨立機構已認可文法學校能對貧困年輕人的生活產生的變革性影響。”

Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) said: “The evidence does not support the expansion of grammar schools; they do not contribute to social mobility and will distract attention from the things that really matter.
然而，全國校長協會祕書長拉塞爾·霍比表示：“這一證據並不能支撐文法學校的擴建，而且文法學校不利於提高社會流動性，並且會分散大家對真正重要事情的注意力。”

“Instead of this divisive and risky reform, we need a firm focus on the most pressing issues within education.”
“我們需要的不是這種會引起紛爭且非常冒險的改革，而是需要更關注教育領域裏更緊迫的問題。”