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...achievement gap in education between white and minority students has not narrowed significantly since 2004, according to data released earlier this week from a national test of 26,000 students that tracks long-term trends in reading and math proficiency. Results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, which the National Center for Education Statistics has published every four years since the early 1970s, show that while young minorities have made academic gains, concurrent improvements in the performance of white students have kept the achievement gap consistently wide. Among high-school-age students, that gulf translated to a roughly...

Author: By Monica S. Liu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Racial Gap Persists In School Scores | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...small sample size of this pilot study and the narrow range of respondents' fields makes generalizing the results tricky. But the fact that women are lagging behind in the languages - often considered academia's female-friendly fields - suggests that the fight to get more women established in male-dominated math and science might be even more of an uphill battle than we expected. According to the new study, whether women were single, married, divorced, with children or without, they lagged behind their male counterparts in every demographic. Married women took an average of 8.8 years to become full professors, compared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forget Math. Women Lag in Becoming English Profs! | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...attempts for 201 yards and a touchdown. He also took the ball himself on several carries, including a 12-yard run for a touchdown late in the first half. Simpson finished 9-of-22 with 74 yards and a touchdown, coming on a pass to junior Alex Math as time expired in the first quarter.Though filling the void Pizzotti left behind will be a difficult task, Murphy has faith that the two sophomores can run the offense.“We’ve got about 28 practices before we play Holy Cross, and they’re going...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Questions Remain After Spring Game | 4/26/2009 | See Source »

...57—"Secret World of" Alex Math has made a couple nice receptions to get the White squad down...

Author: By Crimson Sports Staff | Title: LIVE BLOG: Harvard Football Spring Game | 4/25/2009 | See Source »

...Harvard is full of startlingly normal people who are as surprised to be here as you are. And, actually, there is a scientific reason for this. Dean William Fitzimmons explained that Harvard admits only about 300 people for purely academic reasons, the rare geniuses who rediscovered plutonium and finished Math 55 in high school. (One lived on my floor freshman year. At least, he was rumored to, but he never emerged during the daytime.) In addition to this are some people who excel early in specific fields. The rest of the class is made up of well-rounded, normal people...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: What am I doing here? | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

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