单项选择题
| The effect of the baby boom on the
schools helped to make possible a shift in thinking about the role of public
education in the 1920’s. In the 1920’s, but especially (1)
the Depression of the 1930’s, the United States experienced a
(2) birth rate. Then with the prosperity (3)
on by the Second World War and the economic boom that followed it,
young people married and (4) households earlier and began
to (5) larger families than had their (6)
during the Depression. Birth rates rose to 102 per thousand in 1946,
106.2 in 1950, and 118 in 1955. (7) economics was probably
the most important (8) , it is not the only explanation for
the baby boom. The increased value placed (9) the idea of the
family also helps to (10) this rise in birth rates. The baby
boomers began streaming (11) the first grade by the
mid-1940’s and became a (12) by 1950. The public school
system suddenly found itself (13) The wartime economy meant
that few new schools were buih between 1940 and 1945. (14) ,
large numbers of teachers left their profession during that period for
better-paying jobs elsewhere. (15) , in the 1950’s, the baby boom hit an antiquated and inadequate school system. Consequently, the custodial rhetoric of the 1930’s no longer made (16) ; keeping youths ages sixteen and older out of the labor market by keeping them in school could no longer be a high (17) for an institution unable to find space and staff to teach younger children. With the baby boom, the focus of educators (18) turned toward the lower grades and back to basic academic skills and (19) . The system no longer had much (20) in offering nontraditional, new, and extra services to older youths. |