(1) Among the many ideas for improving public schools, the notion of educating more boys and girls in same-sex classrooms may be the most controversial. (2) Advocates, believe
separate classes for boys and girls could improve public schools by allowing students of both
genders to learn more when they are apart. (3).
of this solution are concerns that
the case for single-sex classrooms relies too heavily on observations of the behaviors of girls and
boys. (4) same-sex classes may end up reinforcing old stereotypes without research to
prove a benefit. (5) ___, one recent study shows no evidence that boys do better in same-sex
schools, pointing to a need for more research.
Choose the transition for sentence 2 that makes the most sense in the context of the paragraph.
in fact
on the contrary
O besides

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

reading poetry is challenging when you don't have or very little of social context and culture schema.

solution: read the introduction, the norm, or even explaination if you still dont get it.

“way of writing” should be replaced with “writing style"

“idea” should be replaced with “purpose.”

maybe   “people from a long time ago” should be replaced with “elizabethans.”