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When it comes to the largest expansion in Harvard’s history, where are the active minds and voices at your university? Where are the urban scholars passionate about creating thriving cities and the educators doing pioneering work to close the “achievement gap?? in America’s public schools? Where are the housing experts with ideas about how low-income, workforce, and Harvard-affiliate housing can be symbiotically integrated? Where are the members of the Harvard community who fiercely believe in justice, equality, and corporate responsibility? Where are the negotiators who seek innovative...
...have found some evidence of a growing ‘class gap?? in civic involvement in America, with younger Americans from well-off backgrounds increasing their participation in politics and society, while kids from the wrong side of the tracks are increasingly dropping out,” wrote Putnam, who founded the Seminar in 1995, in an e-mailed statement. “This generous new grant will help us better understand the dimensions of this problem, and to explore its origins...
...Wagner’s book thoroughly examines how standardized tests, aided by an inability to teach beyond them, dampen the intellectual curiosity of American children and thus reinforce the global achievement gap, he only gets at a piece of the problem. By downplaying America’s first achievement gap??that between low-income minority students and their middle-class counterparts—Wagner’s argument belies a true representation of the academic challenges facing our country and obscures the actions we should be taking. While it is difficult to disagree with his claim that teaching...
Harvard professors, students, and a former corporate vice president urged students in a panel discussion at Harvard Business School (HBS) last night to use their positions as future elites to help reduce the “achievement gap?? among racial and socioeconomic groups. This was the second event of “Raps on the Gap,” a University-wide interdisciplinary discussion series sponsored by Harvard’s Achievement Gap Initiative. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) lecturer and Achievement Gap Initiative Director Ronald F. Ferguson began the panel by comparing test scores among different racial groups...
Mori, who became the first woman to be tenured at GSD when she arrived in 1995, said a “generation gap?? exists in architecture: women comprise nearly half of the student body, but there are few female faculty...