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Among the files strewn about were her students' high school applications.
In his work, Jones reads hundreds and hundreds of high school applications during the fall and early winter.
She said the current choice system was problematic because of a complicated selection process, which does not guarantee students admission to any of the choices they list in the high school applications they fill out during eighth grade.
New York's eighth graders fill out high school applications ranking as many as 12 choices, and the high schools, in turn, rank applicants based on their portfolios, test scores, geographic proximity and other factors.
So while Mr. Klein says the new matching process should reduce strategizing among applicants, parents say they and their children are still forced to think and rethink before ranking choices on high school applications, which for many students are due on Friday.
I am not a professional educator, but I side with the group of New York City school principals who have already denounced the tests and are refusing to use individual results to evaluate middle and high school applications until the exams are revised.
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For years, the high school application process has been an anxiety-ridden rite of passage for the city's adolescents that leaves many disappointed.
The high school application process is a nerve-wrecking nightmare and extremely unfair to single parents, new immigrant families and any other families who simply cannot put in the countless hours it takes to attend open houses, tours and fairs.
Most of the CPS eighth-graders in 2017-18 (91 percent, or roughly 24,500 students) completed a high school application using GoCPS.
In 2017, the Chicago Board of Education adopted a common application across all high school choice programs, including charter high schools, in order to streamline the high school application process.
In her partnership with the UChicago Consortium, she is also looking at the high school application process and, in particular, the effectiveness of selective enrollment high schools.
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