qualify sb to do_be prepared to_qualify sb for(3)

Education has a history of lurching from one miracle solution to the next. The best of them even do some good. Teach for America, and the dozens of organisations it has inspired in other countries, have brought ambitious, energetic new graduates into the profession. And dismissing teachers for bad performance has boosted results in Washington, DC, and elsewhere. But each approach has its limits. Teaching is a mass profession: it cannot grab all the top graduates, year after year. When poor teachers are fired, new ones are needed—and they will have been trained in the very same system that failed to make fine teachers out of their predecessors.

NOTES：

1、lurch v.突然前倾（或向一侧倾斜）

2、teach n.(infml)教师

3、dismiss v.解雇

4、result n.[pl.]成果，成效（things that are achieved successfully）

5、mass a.大批的，广泛的（affecting or involving a large number of people or things）

eg.(1)mass unemployment/ production/ market 大批失业；批量生产；大众市场

(2)weapons of mass destruction 杀伤性武器

5、predecessor n.前任（a person who did a job before sb else）

过去，一种又一种具有奇效的策略成为教育方法，其中最好的那些策略甚至能够发挥些许良好作用。教师对于美国和其鼓舞的其他国家的众多组织来说，是让有志向、精力充沛的年轻毕业生进入这一职业的人。解雇表现差劲的老师，已让美国及其他地方的教学效果得以提升。但每一种方法都有其局限性。教育是门涉众甚广的职业：它无法留住所有顶尖毕业生，年复一年。当拙劣的教师被解雇之时，就需要新教师上任——而这些教师是由同一教学体系训练出来的，这样的体系无法让新教师超越他们的前任。

By contrast, the idea of improving the average teacher could revolutionise the entire profession. Around the world, few teachers are well enough prepared before being let loose on children. In poor countries many get little training of any kind. A recent report found 31 countries in which more than a quarter of primary-school teachers had not reached (minimal) national standards. In rich countries the problem is more subtle. Teachers qualify following a long, specialised course. This will often involve airy discussions of theory—on ecopedagogy, possibly, or conscientisation (don’t ask). Some of these courses, including masters degrees in education, have no effect on how well their graduates’ pupils end up being taught.

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