If the district finds homework to be unimportant to its students’ academic achievement, it should move to reduce or eliminate the assignments, not make them count for almost nothing.
如果该地区认为作业对其学生的学业成绩不重要，它就应该采取措施减少或取消作业，而不是让作业几乎不计成绩。
may give its readers a sense of achievement
可能给予其读者一种成就感
For years, studies have found that first-generation college students – those who do not have a parent with a college degree – lag other students on a range of education achievement factors.
多年来，研究发现，第一代大学生——即父母中没有大学学历的学生——在一系列教育成就因素上都落后于其他学生。
This has created “a paradox” in that recruiting first-generation students, but then watching many of them fail, means that higher education has “continued to reproduce and widen, rather than close” an achievement gap based on social class, according to the depressing beginning of a paper forthcoming in the journal Psychological Science.
根据即将发表在《心理科学》期刊上的一篇论文令人沮丧的开头，这种做法创造了一个‘悖论’：招收第一代大学生，但随后却看到其中许多人失败，这意味着高等教育‘继续复制并扩大，而非缩小’了基于社会阶层的成就差距。
But the article is actually quite optimistic, as it outlines a potential solution to this problem, suggesting that an approach (which involves a one-hour, next-to-no-cost program) can close 63 percent of the achievement gap (measured by such factors as grades) between first-generation and other students.
但这篇文章实际上相当乐观，因为它概述了解决这一问题的潜在方案，提出一种方法（涉及一个几乎不花成本的一小时项目）可以缩小第一代大学生与其他学生之间63%的成就差距（以成绩等因素衡量）。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。