If you’ve met and exchanged contact information with your child’s teacher or volunteered to become the class parent, you’re on hour way to becoming an engaged parent—the kind of adult education researchers say, who helps children to be the best they can be in school.
    Now, more than 20 states are about to make your role as an engaged parent a lot more important. Parents whose children attend a failing school can band together. If 51 percent of them sign a petition(请愿书), they can demand, and the district must provide, a new set of administrators to run the school. Parents have become the hottest players in education reform. It’s an encouraging development.
    Over the last 15 years, parents were first invited—and now, in many places, are required ---to participate in choosing what school their children will attend. It’s a great idea, but imperfect and time-consuming. Some wealthy parents register their children in private schools, where the admission process is often much easier and class size is smaller. Many low-income parents are finding better options for their children . But many are not, especially those less good at working the system. However, when researchers studied the school choice process in Harford, they found that schools with the highest levels of parental satisfaction were often ones with the lowest levels of academic achievement and things were the same all over the country.
Giving parents the power may prove to be an important turning point in education reform. We need to supply parents with training programs to help them know, for example, what should be expected from a parent-teacher conference and how to make sure that elementary, middle and high school curriculums are preparing students for college. Otherwise, the next big thing in education--- parent power—is going to hurt our children, instead of helping them.
73．According to the text, engaged parents _____．
       A．urge children to finish homework         B．train children to live independently          
       C．help children do their best at school       D．teach children to mind their manners
74．It can be known from the text that_______.
       A．schools satisfying parents most don’t necessarily produce academically best students
       B．wealthy parents choose private schools just because of their easier admission process
       C．parents have been the hottest players in education reform in the past 15 years
       D．low-income parents generally make wrong decisions on school choosing
75．Which of the following might be the best title for the text?
       A．Choosing schools for children              B．Calling for school reform
       C．Preparing children for college           D．Putting parents in charge