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Cambridge Public Schools currently face a daunting array of issues, including a race-based achievement gap, inconsistencies in middle-grade education, a controversial policy to establish socioeconomic diversity, and looming budget concerns...
Family physicians in the Geisinger system, like family physicians everywhere, make less money than specialists - at first. To narrow the gap, the specialists subsidize the PCPs, keeping the family practitioners happy without taking too big a bite from the orthopedists and cardiologists. "I couldn't recruit if I didn't do that," says Dr. Glenn Steele, Geisinger's CEO. "We don't want our family doctors setting up their own radiology clinics...
Canada, a 1975 graduate of the Graduate School of Education, is the President and CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone, a non-profit organization that operates in a 100-block area of Harlem and helps low-income students bridge the achievement gap through a comprehensive set of programs and services...
...would seem, there’s no hope. Just last week, the most recent standardized test results showed that, despite improvements, Cambridge students are still scoring below the state average and that the racial achievement gaps in the city are larger than they are in Massachusetts as a whole. Particularly distressing was the staggering 44-point achievement gap between white and black students on the seventh-grade math test. The disappointing results come in the face of natural advantages that most cities would kill for: notably, a blank check from taxpayers—at last count, an extraordinary...
...third period, captain Alex Biega fired a slapshot off freshman Conor Morrison’s pass to narrow the gap...