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摘要：今天要跟大家分享的雅思閱讀素材叫做“Does online preschool program work?”最近，在線教育真心特別火。它提供了一種方便的，高效的學習方式，深受各類學生的喜歡。對于小朋友們來說，在線教育的意義在哪兒呢？一起來看這篇閱讀素材怎么講的吧！

“In some of the most rural parts of Utah and the country, there simply isn’t a bricks-and-mortar(實體的)option or, if there is, it involves a long travel time,” Miner said.

About half of the children who participated in Upstart during the 2014-2015 school year were enrolled in another preschool program. One of them was Megan Albrecht’s daughter, who attended a preschool three half-days each week.

“The Upstart program was great, but it really just went over letters, just the alphabet and the grammar part, and there’s so much more than just that,” said Albrecht, a mother of three in Panguitch, Utah, a rural town of 1,600 in southern Utah, near Bryce Canyon’s famous rock hoodoos.

But Albrecht said Upstart is an important tool because it provides her a structure, and a daily nudge(推動), to teach her daughter the alphabet and basic skills for kindergarten.

Mark Innocenti, a professor at Utah State University, was skeptical(懷疑的)about using scarce state funds to pay for an educational model with unproven results for low-income students. But after evaluating whether the program is effective when used in home day care and district-run preschool programs, his thinking has changed.

Innocenti said he has been convinced that combining online learning with traditional preschool is a valid approach that gives children the best of both worlds. But he said he remains concerned about relying on an in-home computer program to serve the poorest children, especially those whose parents work or speak English as a second language.

Utah’s legislature recently started an effort to serve those children in traditional, center-based preschools. In a twist on preschool funding — using “social impact bonds” — investors can foot(結算;衡量) the upfront costs of providing traditional preschool programs. And if the program meets goals for reducing the number of children who need costly special education services, taxpayers pay the investors back, with interest.

That program is quite small, serving about 1,000 children, according to Stephenson, the state senator. And it is far more expensive than Upstart. It probably will cost taxpayers between $1,900 and $2,000 per child, according to state fiscal analysts.

Stephenson said the cost of traditional preschool limits how many of the state’s 50,000 4-year-olds can be served.

“We can cover a lot more children with the same dollars with Upstart,” he said.

Vocabulary

navigate 航行

pilot program 試點項目

customize 定制

ingredient 成分

wishful thinking 異想天開

inception 開始;開端

bolster 支持

literacy 讀寫能力

fraction 小部分;分數