Ellie Mulcahy, senior research associate at education and youth think and action tank LKMco, said: «Even if these grammar schools open up their entry to allow a proportion of disadvantaged pupils to come in, that will be only for those who do well in the test, whether they've been coached or not. (bbc.co.uk)
Speakers came from Brighter Green (a US non-profit action tank with a focus on food policy and equity), Humane Society International, and the Global Forest Coalition (an organization working for socially - just forest policy, with a special focus on Indigenous Peoples» rights). (earthinbrackets.org)
► The role of patients in medical research is expanding in the United States, and researchers studying human health should both take advantage of the benefits of this trend and contribute to its adoption, wrote Margaret Anderson and K. Kimberly McCleary of FasterCures, an «action tank» working «to remove barriers to medical progress,» in a Focus article in this week's issue of STM. (sciencemag.org)