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...week after the president of Cambridge’s National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) chapter compared the Cambridge public schools to an “apartheid educational system,” concerns continue to overshadow a new benchmarking initiative aimed at closing the achievement gap between minority and white students. The new initiative would collect data on student performance from standardized tests in an effort to identify gaps across subject areas. According to Cambridge public school administration officials, the new benchmarking system is necessary to raise the level of achievement of Cambridge students and give...
...discover. The office I’m headed to next fall has an entering class with a 50-50 gender split. But of the few dozen partners, only two are women. While the hiring rates for jobs in many sectors have finally begun to look gender-neutral, the discrimination gap remains strong when it comes to promotion—even among candidates with similar performance marks and equivalent hours logged. As sociological studies increasingly point to implicit biases, acknowledging that these trends exist is the first step in driving real change. Being able to talk about them here would...
After Penn (14-6, 6-0) struck back to widen the gap to 24 points, Stehle poured on eight points of a 10-0 run that cut the Quaker lead to 69-58 with 3:08 remaining, scoring on a trio of interior buckets and on four shots from the charity stripe...
...would be. But symbolic of what, exactly? Foreign affairs, aside from a few cheap shots at the U.S., barely rated a mention during the last campaign, and Harper has not rushed to fill that gap so far. The new government's five priorities remain domestic ones: cleaning up official corruption, shortening medical wait times, cutting the gst, helping families afford child care and toughening crime laws. The Tories promised a made-in-Canada foreign policy in 2004 that was unclear beyond calling for higher defense spending, and they were similarly vague in 2006. There are no grand Harper world visions...
...game was just the thing,” Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said, “that a team that had just lost two games at the buzzer did not need.”Housman hit a three with 43 seconds left in the half to close the gap to 35-18 at the break.The first half belonged to Penn forward Mark Zoller, who poured in 17 points in the opening period. He added nine more in the second for a career-high 26 points.“You wish you could count on that every night...