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...study released last week found that minorities are underrepresented at major research universities across the country. The study—based on a survey of the National Science Foundation’s top-100 universities in each of the 15 academic disciplines—also predicted that the gap between minority representation in the general population and in academia will have a direct effect on the thinking and scientific practices of future generations. “We’ve been looking at the diversity in faculties for several years now, originally we were doing this but focusing on women...
...list due to disparities in performance among subgroups: white, black, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American students, as well as low-income, special education, and limited English students. Under the No Child Left Behind Act, school progress is measured by overall improvement in both English and Math, and reducing the gap among subgroups in both English and Math. A school that fails to make progress in any one of these areas is flagged as needing improvement. For several of the past six years, Cambridge’s overall scores in both English and math have risen. But because high-scoring groups...
...Both Expos and the concentrations share the responsibility for closing this gap. Fortunately, an increasing number of faculty and teaching fellows (TFs) around campus have been making efforts to hold exchanges with preceptors on several important questions. What should a one-semester introductory academic writing course do for students? What are its necessary limits? Where can the uptake of the skills and principles learned in Expos be articulated in, say, a sophomore tutorial? How can writing skills in a concentration be sequenced through senior year? How can careful assignment design and attentive faculty and TF responses to student writing push...
Teach for America often talks about the “achievement gap,” a term that describes the poor academic performance found in disadvantaged communities. In Boston, it was easy to see the achievement gap as a physical fissure, the distance from the Harvard T stop to the less pampered subway stations on the other end of the Red Line. Crossing that fissure cost about two dollars, and no matter how often I visited Dorchester, I remained a citizen of Harvard’s side of the Gap...
...boys born for every 100 girls. India's reported sex-ratio in 2001 was 108:100 nationwide, but as high as 120 in some areas; some 7,000 girls go unborn in India each day, according to a U.N. Children's Fund report last year. The national "gender gap" in Vietnam may be narrower than China's, but about a third of Vietnam's provinces, mostly in the poorer north, reported sex ratios skewing as high as 120 boys, equal to China's national average...