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According to Harris, the Faculty Council endorsed the idea of eliminating the gap, but thought they might as well take the change one step further...
Among its recommendations were a switch from a 15- to an eight-point grading scale to eliminate the numerical gap between a B-plus and an A-minus, and thus reduce pressure on professors to award A-range grades...
...Zinn makes some good points when he deplores America's response to the terrorist attacks (for example, his argument that "the Bush administration is using the war as a cover for worsening the income gap in this country, while paying no attention to the problems of most of the American people, while enriching corporations"), but his solutions, including the removal of U.S. troops from Saudi Arabia, come perilously close to appeasement - the notion that if you just give the terrorists what they want, they'll leave you alone. This is impractical for as imperial a country as the U.S. - which...
...best case scenario, English learners in Structural English Immersion classes are making progress in closing the achievement gap,” said Patricia Gandara, a professor at University of California, Davis...
...Black and White could only knock a second off the gap and was 11 seconds off Princeton’s pace...