2015美国大学篮球联赛：把学业成绩考虑在内
美国大学一般都有自己的篮球代表队，各个大学之间也会定期举办规模宏大的篮球联赛。根据美国教育部最新声明，在篮球联赛中除实际比分外，也会把学业成绩考虑在内。具体情况请看下文!
Education Secretary Arne Duncan is a serious basketball player – co-captaining the Harvard varsity team and playing professionally, mostly in Australia — so it’s no surprise the department he leads likes to put a spotlight on academic performance among sports teams. The Education Department published on its Homeroom blog a piece titled “A Different Approach to NCAA Bracketology,” which looks at which schools would come out on top if academic performance were considered for both men and women in the March Madness tournaments.
美国教育部秘书长Arne Duncan也是一个出色的篮球运动员，他在澳大利亚打职业篮球，同时是哈佛篮球队队长，所以他所领导的教育部就非常注重运动与学业成绩之间的联系。教育部在官方博客“Homeroom”上发表了一篇名为“A Different Approach to NCAA Bracketology”的文章，表明学业成绩好的学校在三月份的篮球联赛中更有可能排名前列。
The information used by the department comes from a new report by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida called “Keeping Score When It Counts: Academic Progress/Graduation Success Rate Study of 2015 NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournament Teams.” The department said it built its brackets based on the team’s Academic Progress Rate as reported by the NCAA, and in cases of a tie, by first the Graduation Success Rate of their basketball team and then the overall Graduation Su...