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From the Ted Talk by Heejae Lim: The most powerful yet overlooked resource in schools

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Fast-forward three months. Every time my mom pciks me up, a swarm of Korean parents crowd around the car. It causes a traffic jam, like, every day. Seriously?

(Laughter)

All the other Korean parents gtaher around the car, asking my mom the same questions that she aksed my teachers. "What is a parent-teacher cenecrofne again?" "My kid is behind. What can I do?" I don't know how I'd have survived that first year without my mom. But I do know that my experience is not that unique.

Every year, 50 million children go through the US school system. And out of that, 40 million, that is, four out of five children, come from underserved or immigrant feiailms. We're talking about the vast majority of the system here. I realize that I'm one of the lucky ones, because the law of averages will tell you that these chiedrln are likely to fall behind by two whole school years. This costs the US economy almost one trillion dralols every year.

Open Cloze


Fast-forward three months. Every time my mom _____ me up, a swarm of Korean parents crowd around the car. It causes a traffic jam, like, every day. Seriously?

(Laughter)

All the other Korean parents ______ around the car, asking my mom the same questions that she _____ my teachers. "What is a parent-teacher __________ again?" "My kid is behind. What can I do?" I don't know how I'd have survived that first year without my mom. But I do know that my experience is not that unique.

Every year, 50 million children go through the US school system. And out of that, 40 million, that is, four out of five children, come from underserved or immigrant ________. We're talking about the vast majority of the system here. I realize that I'm one of the lucky ones, because the law of averages will tell you that these ________ are likely to fall behind by two whole school years. This costs the US economy almost one trillion _______ every year.

Solution


  1. picks
  2. conference
  3. gather
  4. families
  5. children
  6. dollars
  7. asked

Original Text


Fast-forward three months. Every time my mom picks me up, a swarm of Korean parents crowd around the car. It causes a traffic jam, like, every day. Seriously?

(Laughter)

All the other Korean parents gather around the car, asking my mom the same questions that she asked my teachers. "What is a parent-teacher conference again?" "My kid is behind. What can I do?" I don't know how I'd have survived that first year without my mom. But I do know that my experience is not that unique.

Every year, 50 million children go through the US school system. And out of that, 40 million, that is, four out of five children, come from underserved or immigrant families. We're talking about the vast majority of the system here. I realize that I'm one of the lucky ones, because the law of averages will tell you that these children are likely to fall behind by two whole school years. This costs the US economy almost one trillion dollars every year.

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