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...days after a member of the Cambridge Public School Committee said that Harvard was not doing enough to help close the achievement gap in Cambridge schools, Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino announced that Harvard and four other Boston universities were teaming up to provide at least $5 million to Boston Public Schools (BPS) to reduce racial testing disparities. The unprecedented collaboration, “Step UP (University Partnership)”—which also includes Boston College, Boston University, Northeastern University, and Tufts University—will aid 10 Boston public schools over the next five years, Menino...
...partner push comes as competition is pushing back. Microsoft is waking to the ad-revenue world, legions of Web 2.0 start-ups are dreaming up useful new tools, and Ask.com and Yahoo! are closing the gap in search. "People have been brainwashed that search can't get any better than Google," says Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone. Ask has dumped its gimmicky Jeeves icon and zoomed in on search, sensing an opening...
Republicans acknowledge one ominous vulnerability: for more than a decade, the party has benefited from an intensity gap. Stoked by hatred of Bill Clinton or love for George W. Bush, G.O.P. voters have been more certain to vote than Democrats--meaning that the party tends to perform better than the final opinion polls suggest. Representative Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, head of the House Democrats' campaign committee, recently told TIME that gap had counted for as much as 5 to 7 points for the Republicans. But he thinks this election year might be different. "Their voters are unhappy," he says. "They...
...initiatives lined up for the Institute are related to Fryer’s area of research. “Skip and I have a ton of ideas in our head,” he said. The two are hoping to start programs aimed at closing the achievement gap between black and white students. “We’re trying to understand and perhaps help racial differences in test scores by giving incentives to kids in elementary school,” Fryer said. Karen C. C. Dalton, the Institute’s assistant director, is on medical leave...
...Courting Missouri's Moms In one of three upper South statesthat Democrats need to win to take control of the Senate, the gender gap could make the difference