分析美国和加拿大中等教育衰落体制方面的原因。中等教育衰落的局面揭示出,综合中学并非理想的中等教育机构,尤其高中阶段;综合中学目标的多重性与分散性,使得为升学和就业两类学生提供的教育均不成功。学分制下的走班制带来的开放松散的管理,是学生读书散漫,水准低下,甚至沾染各种不良习气的原因。建议加拿大和美国采用双轨制,在高中阶段建立职业技术学校;在初中阶段建立固定班级,辅之以选修课,为扭转教育颓势的必要改革。 Analyze the reasons for the decline of secondary education in the United States and Canada. The decline of secondary education reveals that comprehensive middle schools are not ideal secondary education institutions, especially in senior secondary education. The multiplicity and dispersion of secondary schools’ goals have not led to successful education for both entrance and employment students. The open and loose management brought by the shift system under the credit system is the reason why students are poorly read, poorly-qualified, and even exposed to various bad habits. It is suggested that Canada and the United States adopt a two-track system to set up a vocational and technical school at the upper secondary level, establish a fixed class in the middle school and supplement it with elective courses as necessary reforms to reverse the decline in education.