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Online Girls’ School Aims to Offer New Opportunities 在线女子学校旨在提供新学习机会

LOS ANGELES—

In a 21st century classroom, the essential tools for learning often include computers, as well as books. Some students are even taking entire classes on the Internet. While an online course may seem impersonal¹, there is a virtual school called Online School for Girls that plans to create a close-knit community in the virtual world to give girls confidence so they can excel academically.

Marlborough School student Xochitl Green wants to pursue a career in the field of psychology².

马尔伯勒学校的学生希克特里·格林一直梦想着从事心理学领域的职业。

Her high school only offers one psychology course, and that's not enough for her.

但她的高中只提供了一种心理学课程,这对格林而言是远远不够的。

“Because I wanted to take a more in-depth class they told me there was an option to do an online course, and so I looked into it."

“我想去上更为深入的课程，因此他们告诉我上在线课程是不错的选择,所以我就来了。”

In addition to her classes in school, Green took an online advanced placement psychology course through Online School For Girls. She saId the experience was different from a regular classroom.

除了学校的课程之外,格林还进行在线女子学校上预修心理学课程的学习。她表示网络课堂体验和一般课堂完全不同。

“I actually thought it was a lot easier to say your thoughts because there weren't any eyes looking at you like there are in a classroom. You got to be completely 100 percent yourself. There were a lot of projects, though, where we had to video chat with girls or you had to text girls."

“我认为网络课堂更容易表达你自己的想法,因为不像教室那样会有人盯着你。你可以完全100%投入。有很多课程,我们女孩间都是视频聊天或互相发短信。”

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Marlborough School's Stuart Posin said partnering with Online School for Girls gives students opportunities they otherwise wouldn't have.

马尔伯勒学校学生斯图尔特·博赛因表示与在线女子学校合作为学生们提供了前所未有的机会。

“There's a lot of APs, a lot of STEM courses that we just don't have the interest or the mass of students to be able to produce those classes, and so by partnering with other schools around the nation and getting the best teachers around the nation, we're giving girls the opportunity they just otherwise wouldn't have."

”有很多我们没有兴趣的先修课程,很多STEM课程,而且大部分学生都不会进行这些课程的学习,所以通过与全国学校协作，获得全国最好的师资力量,我们给女孩们提供前所未有的机会。”

Brad Rathgeber, Executive Director for the Online School for Girls."What we're trying to do in these single gender³ settings is really build an enormous amount of confidence in the girls so they can find great success they go onto college and beyond.

女子网络学校执行董事布拉德·拉特格博说道。“我们正在这些单性别学校中尝试的是为这些女孩树立极大的信心,这样她们进入大学获得更大的成就。

A single sex education is not what makes a student successful, though, says Diane Halpern of the Minerva Schools at Keck Graduate Institute.

不过单性教育不会让一名学生取得成功, 凯克研究所密涅瓦学校戴安·哈尔普恩说道。

She spoke⁴ to VOA in a Skype interview.

在通过Skype接受的采访她对美国之音说道。

“Often people will point to exemplary single sex schools and say 'look here's an example that it works,' but they tend to be highly selective in terms of the students they admit. Parents are wealthier, especially in the U.S., where people have paid they tend to be very academically focused."

“人们经常认为单性学校是成功学校，将这里视作典范,但是他们往往是按照学生们所承认的进行选择性。父母都是富裕的,尤其是在美国,人们通常会花钱送孩子上更关注学术的学校。”

But there is growing interest in an all girls' online school. Since it began five years ago, the Online School for Girls has seen an increase in attendance, and the number of high schools partnering with Online School for Girls has grown from four to 85.

但人们对于所有女子在线学校的兴趣正在逐渐增加。从5年前开始,女子网上学校人数增加,而且与这种学校合作的高中数量已从4所增加到85所。

Rathgeber said his online girls' school provides students with a strong sense of community that helps them learn.

拉特格博表示他的在线女子学校为学生提供了一种帮助自己学习的强烈社区意识。

“If you're creating a small cose knit community and you're trying to really bond students with their teachers and students with each other, gender can matter at some level. And we think we can create a learning environment that capitalizes on a single gender experience."

“如果你希望创建一个紧密团结的社区并且你想真正让学生们，师生之间心连心，性别在某种程度上会至关重要。我们认为利用单性别经验可以创造这样的一种学习环境。”

Rathgeber is now working on building an online school for boys.

拉特格博现在的一所在线男子学校正在构建当中。

1 impersonal   

adj.无个人感情的，与个人无关的，非人称的

参考例句：

• Even his children found him strangely distant and impersonal.他的孩子们也认为他跟其他人很疏远，没有人情味。
• His manner seemed rather stiff and impersonal.他的态度似乎很生硬冷淡。

2 psychology   

n.心理，心理学，心理状态

参考例句：

• She has a background in child psychology.她受过儿童心理学的教育。
• He studied philosophy and psychology at Cambridge.他在剑桥大学学习哲学和心理学。

3 gender   

n.（生理上的）性，（名词、代词等的）性

参考例句：

• French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语，所有的名词都有性。
• Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。

4 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。