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...member of the Cambridge Public School Committee claimed at a meeting last night that the city’s schools do not get enough aid from Harvard and MIT in attempting to close the achievement gap. The committee’s roundtable—which brought together school officials, teachers, and parents—was intended to serve as a preliminary to a three-part forum about the achievement gap and ways to close it in the district. The achievement gap, a nationally-seen disparity in the test scores of white and minority students...
...child plays at her feet and the rounded belly beneath her apron suggests another is on the way. Fast-forward to the present day. What lies behind the front door? The nuclear family is not dead - some 29% of E.U. households still include dependent children - but the age gap between parents and children is widening. Mothers with old faces and young children are now a common sight on the high street. The average age of women giving birth in the E.U. hovers at just below 30, up from 27.4 in 1991. That average falls between two distant poles: teenage pregnancies...
...Asian efforts endure setbacks. The Bush Administration's limit on the use of federal money for human embryonic stem-cell research in the U.S. since 2001 has reduced funding and deterred some scientists from undertaking the controversial work. A report in Nature Biotechnology in April found a widening gap in the rate at which U.S. and non-U.S. research teams have published articles about human embryonic stem-cell research in scientific journals since 2002, and concluded that the U.S. was "falling behind in the international race to make fundamental discoveries" in the field. Asian efforts are well funded...
...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
...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