Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...achievement levels of school children, one shows moderate gains (Sacramento), two showed mixed results (Hartford/New Haven, Rochester), three are inconclusive (Buffalo, Evanston, White Plains) and four show either houses or no significant gains (Ann Arbor, Berkeley, Boston, Riversides). In every city studied busing failed to reduce the gap between black and white achievement. In fact most cities reported that the achievement gap had grown even larger after busing. Scholars who have reviewed the evidence, including Armor, Bell, Edmonds, Giazer, and St. John, have concluded that using had little if any effect on the academic achievement of either black or white...
Such perceptions of an alien atmosphere in the Houses stemming from a widened gap between generational attitudes and cultural modes has led to efforts among some Housemasters to establish more formal channels of communication...
...culmination of a deliberate policy of recalcitrance towards DISC. If Bok had met and talked with the students--instead of walking out and avoiding the kind of crisis situation he is supposed to handle to well--he probably could have avoided the ensuing tension and the now even wider gap between DISC and the administration and the advisory board. When it takes a demonstration for Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, to say that he will tell Bok his "personal impression" is that the students' demand to meet with Bok is a "sincere one," then clearly something...
...them. Course selection is limited and incomplete. The biggest problem is that the luminaries of the department are such experts in their small fields, so involved in their research, that none of them is willing to teach historical survey courses or introductions, or even generalize about their field. This gap has traditionally been filled by making the non-credit tutorials treat an historical author--more a formal solution than a real one, as the non-credit courses rarely cover more than one book, and that in a rather shallow manner. Next year the tutorials will be for half-credit...
...that the story is building towards its ending--the gap between American and Vietnamese experiences of the Vietnam war, and the American antiwar movement's failure to bridge the gap, seem clearer than ever before. Congress may flatly refuse President Ford the unqualified authority and unlimited funds that it awarded his predecessors and that he needs to continue the war. But Congress's new willingness to refuse--if it doesn't crumble under pressure, as several key representatives already have--will depend less on leftists' and liberals' imagination of mechanized warfare than on liberals' and conservatives' unwillingness so he bothered...