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听力文本
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report.
A new study finds a lack of education for young children in developing nations seriously affects the country's economic progress. The organization Results for Development called R4D performed the study. The Non-Governmental group is based in Washington D.C. Its study says children who are not attending primary school are an unused source of economic growth for their country.
R4D says it performed the study because it was worried about a growing worldwide problem in education. The group found 57 million children of primary school age are not in school, most of them are from sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia.
Milan Thomas works for R4D. He says there has been progress in reducing the number of children who do not attend school, but he says that progress has slowed in recent years. He says there is no disagreement that children with basic education can look forward to a better life.
FILE - Children get ready to enter a class room in Yakouta, Burkina Faso.
"The benefits associated with primary education are really undisputed at this point because there are countless studies showing that children who complete basic education tend to enjoy better health and higher incomes over their lifetimes," said Thomas.
But he says even though the value of education is known, it is important to find new ways of proving that value. So the organization led its work with the question, "what is the estimated cost to a nation's economy of its out–of-school children? "
The study uses information from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, as well as studies of developing labor markets. The results estimate the losses suffered by 20 developing countries if more young children can not get basic education. Milan Thomas says the study also considered earnings the children not attending primary school would never receive.
He says the research found that it is far more costly in sub-Saharan Africa to have primary school age children out of school than to educate them. He notes the cost to provide all children with primary education is much less than the average cost of not providing the schooling. He says the cost of educating children is more than the value of a full year's average economic growth for five countries in the study: they are Ivory Coast, Gambia, Mali, Senegal and Yemen.
Mr Thomas says the cost of children being out-of-school in Senegal is nearly 8 percent of the country's total goods and services. He said Nigeria has the highest number of out-of-school children — 10 million. He said that will cost the country billions of dollars.
He says he hopes the study will prove to local governments and policy makers the value of a basic education for all children. And he says he hopes it will move them to provide that education to primary school age children in their country.
And that's the VOA Learning English Education Report. I'm Christopher Cruise.
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词汇解释
1.unused adj. 不用的；从未用过的
She flushed the unused tablets away.
她冲走了未服用的药片。
2.undisputed adj. 无可争辩的；无异议的；毫无疑问的
Seles won 10 tournaments, and was the undisputed world champion.
塞莱斯赢了10次锦标赛，是无异议的世界冠军。
3.countless adj. 无数的；数不尽的
She brought joy to countless people through her music.
她通过自己的音乐把快乐带给了无数人。
内容解析
1.He says there is no disagreement that children with basic education can look forward to a better life.
look forward to 盼望，期待
He was looking forward to working with the new manager.
他很期待和新经理一起工作。
He now says that he's looking forward to increased trade after the war.
他现在说他正期盼着战后的贸易增长。
2.He says the research found that it is far more costly in sub-Saharan Africa to have primary school age children out of school than to educate them.
out of school 失学
She dropped out of school to become a waitress.
她退学去当女招待。
The typical urban heroin addict has dropped out of school by his early teens.
城市里典型的有海洛因瘾的人往往从十几岁起就辍学了。
参考译文
这里是美国之音慢速英语教育报道。
一份新研究发现，发展中国家儿童受教育不足会对该国的经济发展造成严重影响。发展结果组织(R4D)进行了这项研究，这家非政府组织总部在华盛顿特区，其研究称对于本国经济发展来说，未上过小学的儿童是没有加以利用的资源。
R4D称之所以进行该研究，是因为担心日益严重的全球教育问题。该组织发现有5700万小学年龄儿童没有上学，大多数在撒哈拉南部非洲和东南亚。
米兰·托马斯就职于R4D，他说在减少不上学儿童数量方面取得了进步，但他说最近几年这个进步放慢了。他说大家一致认为受过基本教育的儿童能过上更好的生活。
“小学教育带来的益处是毫无争议的，因为有无数研究表明，完成基本教育的儿童会在一生中更健康，收入也更高。”
不过他说即使大家都知道教育的价值，重要的是要找到证明这种价值的新途径。所以该组织在就开始探究这个问题，“失学儿童对一个国家的经济来说是多大的损失？”
该研究使用了来自联合国教科文组织统计所的数据，以及对发展中国家劳工力市场的研究。研究结果估计了20个发展中国家如果更多儿童无法得到基本教育带来的损失。米兰·托马斯说研究还考虑了不上小学的儿童将永远无法获得的收入。
他说研究发现，在撒哈拉南部非洲地区，小学学龄儿童失学的成本远远高于给他们提供教育的成本。他指出，为全部儿童提供小学教育的成本要远远低于不提供教育的平均成本。他说研究中有五个国家其教育儿童的成本要高于其全年的平均经济发展，它们是：科特迪瓦、冈比亚、马里、塞内加尔和也门。
托马斯说在塞内加尔，儿童失学的成本相当于该国商品与服务总额的近8%。他说尼日利亚的失学儿童数量最高，是1000万。他说这将使得该国损失数十亿美元。
他说希望研究能向当地政府和政策制定者制定为全体儿童提供基本教育的价值，他说希望能推动他们为本国小学年龄儿童提供教育。
这里是美国之音慢速英语教育报道，我是克里斯多夫·克鲁斯。
