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The Climate Science Information Centreisa separate dedicated space on Facebook （thatconnectsour communitywithfactual resources from the world's leading climate organisations including The Met Office in the UK.）

气候科学信息中心是Facebook上的一个独立的专用空间，它将我们的社会与包括英国气象局在内的世界顶尖气候组织的事实数据资源连接起来了。

句子主体为: The Climate Science Information Centre is a separate dedicated space on Facebook. that...是对a separate dedicated space on Facebook的修饰；connect xx with xx。

1.separate 单独的；独立的；分开的，forming a unit by itself; not joined to sth else

2.dedicate 专用的；专门用途的， [only before noun] designed to do only six particular type of work; used for six particular purpose only

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和其他几乎所有事情一样，疫情成了探照灯，照亮了长期存在的问题。其中两个最有力的启示是：学校是培养儿童的基础，没有学校，我们的经济就无法完全复苏——而学校是不平等的引擎。

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Study after study has shown that economicmobility– the term used to define people’s ability tomove upthe economic ladder – is a shadow of what it was 50 years ago. Where you are born, and to whom, determines your economic opportunity far more than it did two generations ago. Put simply, the American dream is delivering for fewer people.

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一项又一项的研究已经表明，经济流动性——用来定义人们沿着经济阶梯向上攀升的能力——现在已大不如50年前的情况。与前两代人相比，你出生在哪里，以及你的父母是谁，更能决定你的经济机会。简而言之，可以实现美国梦的人变少了。

So how do we fix it? My answer had been education. And there is a logic to that. As Western economies shift into a new gear – away from manufacturing and toward knowledge-based industries – education is essential to spread these opportunities to all.

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那么我们该如何解决这个问题呢?我的回答曾经是教育。这么说是有道理的。随着西方经济从制造业向知识型产业转型，要想机会普惠，教育至关重要。

But in an article in the Atlantic, “Better Schools Won’t Fix America,” entrepreneur Nick Hanauer asks an interesting question: If public education is struggling, then why are public school students in wealthy areas doing just fine? That leads to one rather obvious conclusion: Higher local tax revenues give those schools sustainable funding. But Mr. Hanauer goes further. That higher income is, in many ways, more important than the school.

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但是，在《大西洋月刊》发布的一篇文章《再好的学校也拯救不了美国》中，企业家尼克·哈诺尔提出了一个有趣的问题：如果公共教育举步维艰，那么为什么富裕地区的公立学校的学生表现还不错呢？由此得出一个显而易见的结论：更高的地方税收为这些学校提供了可持续的资金。但哈诺尔进一步得出，在很多方面，更高的收入比学校更重要。

“The scientific literature on this subject isrobust, and theconsensusoverwhelming. The lower your parents’ income, the lower your likely level of educationalattainment. Period,” Mr. Hanauer writes. “Multiple studies have found that only about 20 percent of student outcomes canbe attributed toschooling, whereas about 60 percent are explained by family circumstances – most significantly, income.”

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有强有力的科学文献探讨这一话题，形成了压倒性的共识。你父母的收入越低，你的受教育程度就越低。就这么简单，”哈诺尔写道。“多项研究发现，只有约20%的学生成绩可以归因于学校教育，而约60%可以归因于家庭环境——最重要的是收入。”

In other words, the best educational reform might be putting more money in parents’ pockets – not through some government program but through higher wages and expanded opportunity. As overall wage growth hasstalled, with money concentrating in fewer hands, public schools have felt the effects, not only in inadequate local tax revenues, but also in the need to serve less economically mobile families.

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换句话说，最好的教育改革可能是把更多的钱放进父母的口袋里——不是通过一些政府计划，而是通过提高工资和扩大机会。翻译划线句，在文末留言框内打卡，答案下期公布~

本文节选自：Christian Science Monitor（基督教科学箴言报）

发布时间：2020.09.09

作者：Mark Sappenfield

原文标题：Can education solve everything?

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词汇积累

1.mobility