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...member of the Cambridge Public School Committee claimed at a meeting last night that the city’s schools do not get enough aid from Harvard and MIT in attempting to close the achievement gap. The committee’s roundtable??—which brought together school officials, teachers, and parents—was intended to serve as a preliminary to a three-part forum about the achievement gap and ways to close it in the district. The achievement gap, a nationally-seen disparity in the test scores of white and minority students...
Decker also facilitated a “roundtable?? discussion in the cafeteria, where elementary and middle school students talked about their interests in chemical testing and earth sciences...
...decades, trade liberalization and privatization of public enterprise has carried the day under a banner known as the Washington Consensus. NAFTA, the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the FTAA are among the institutions and frameworks designed to enshrine the Washington Consensus. Harold McGraw III, the chair of the Business Roundtable??s international trade and investment task force, cites World Bank estimates that the removal of trade barriers “could add $2,800 billion to the world economy by 2015, of which $1,500 billion would accrue to developing countries, lifting 320 million people out of extreme...
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