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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.
We can learn from the text that________.
选项 A、Department of Education officials instruct screened schools monthly
B、high-school directory shows the detailed test scores of students
C、few selective schools in New York post precise admission criteria
D、researchers at the Feerick Center offered sufficient seats for students
答案C
解析 根据该题题干可知，该题目需在理解全文大意的基础上做推理引申。文章第一段提出，纽约市精英公立中学应该让家长更方便地了解详细的录取标准，但只有一小部分学校这样做；文章第三段指出乔治.威斯汀豪斯中学是少数提供录取标准的学校之一；第四段第一句则提出，教育部官员表示，他们每年都会指导经过筛选的学校制定相应的入学标准，致力于构建一个公平和透明的招生过程。由此可看出，纽约的精英中学中制定详细录取标准的学校并不多，故选项C正确。文章第四段第一句指出Department of Education officials said they instruct screened schools annually to make rubrics available(教育部官员表示，他们每年都会指导经过筛选的学校制定相应的入学标准)，并不是每个月指导，故选项A应排除；由第二段第二句可知high—school directory show general requirements for each school(高中目录会列出每所学校的基本要求)，而并未列出学生们详细的测试分数，故B项也应排除；由文章第三段可知，菲里克社会正义中心只是发布了一份“筛选”报告，表示更高的透明度“大大有助于一些家庭更好地处理这一过程，营造公平的竞争环境”，在最后一段中提到菲里克社会正义中心的研究人员在学校网站上搜寻招生标准，给校长写信要求制定标准，并给高中打了两轮电话，这些信息中并未提及菲里克社会正义中心和更多的录取名额之间的关系，故D项应排除。
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