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Selective New York City public high schools are supposed to make it easy for families to see their detailed admission criteria,

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问题     Selective New York City public high schools are supposed to make it easy for families to see their detailed admission criteria, but only a fraction of schools do so, according to a new report from Fordham Law School. Just 20 of 157 screened high-school programs put their rubrics for evaluating applicants online or gave them to researchers upon request, the report said Tuesday. At a time when selectivity in admission to public schools is under scrutiny, the report said families deserve far more information on exactly how students are judged.
    In the city’s complex system, eighth-graders competing for seats rank up to 12 choices, selective schools rank applicants, and an algorithm makes matches. The city Department of Education website and high-school directory show general requirements for each school. But the agency has said each school should make available a rubric showing the precise weighting of admission criteria, such as test scores, course grades, attendance and punctuality. Those details help students determine whether they are viable candidates and avoid wasting their picks on programs where they have no shot.
    More transparency "could go far in helping some families better navigate the process and level the playing field," said Dora Galacatos, executive director of Fordham’s Feerick Center for Social Justice, which issued the "Screened Out" report. George Westinghouse High School in Brooklyn was one of the few to provide rubrics. It gave 15％ of points for attendance, 15％ for punctuality, 7.5％ for each of the four core course grades, and 40％ for state test scores in math and reading.
    Department of Education officials said they instruct screened schools annually to make rubrics available, and would remind principals in their next newsletter. "We’re committed to a fair and transparent admissions process," said spokeswoman Katie O’Hanlon. Screening faces critics who say it aggravates segregation by race and income, partly because affluent families have more resources to deal with the system and pay for tutoring. Supporters of screening say it helps high-performing students learn at a faster pace.
    Researchers at the Feerick Center hunted for admissions rubrics on school websites, sent letters to principals asking for rubrics, and made two rounds of phone calls to high schools, between June 2018 and February. Most of the roughly 77,000 students who applied to high school sought to get into at least one screened program, which offered about 15,700 seats in 2017, the report said.
George Westinghouse High School is one of the schools that________.
选项 A、make detailed admission criteria available
B、value math and reading the least in previous tests
C、challenge the transparent admission process
D、will be reminded in the next newsletter from authorities
答案A
解析 根据题干关键信息George Westinghouse High School in Brooklyn was one of the few to provide rubrics. (乔治.威斯汀豪斯中学是少数提供招生标准的学校之一)，接着第三句具体描述入学标准包括15％的出勤率、15％的守时性、30％的四门核心课程的成绩以及40％的数学和阅读考试分数。由此可知，该学校列出了详细的招生标准供学生和家长参考，故A项make detailed admission criteria available(提供详细的录取标准)为正确答案。由第三段第三句可知，其入学标准为15％的出勤率、15％的守时性、30％的四门核心课程的成绩以及40％的州数学和阅读考试分数，由此可看出，数学和阅读成绩占比最大，故B项value math and reading the least in previous tests(在之前的测试中，最不重视数学和阅读)应排除；同样，由该学校提供的详细录取标准可知，其遵守透明的录取程序，而不是C项challenge the transparent admission process (挑战透明的录取程序)所述。故该选项应排除；由第四段第一句可知，教育部官员表示会在下次的简报中提醒校长们制定入学标准，而乔治.威斯丁豪斯学校已经提供了详细的招生标准，故不会在下次简报中被提醒，故D项应排除。
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