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Today's must - read story is by Fortune contributor Heidi Hartmann, an economist, MacArthur Fellow, and president of the Institute for Women's Policy Research, who reports that the gender pay gap hit a record low last year.

I think the message «we haven't thought this through» was heard by the Gap since I read recently that they also retracted the statement put out by Forest Ethics... it appears they are not boycotting Alberta oil so much as trying to source greener energy.

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If I may just quickly offer a little, hopefully constructive, criticism: In reading through the bridging the gap materials on your main website (before I dug a little deeper and became a little concerned by the Exodus connection and the other two websites still run by your ministry which I am unable to describe as anything other than ex-gay, hence my deeming it Exodus - lite) I could not shake the very strong us - them mentality that seemed to permeate everything.

No one reading the Church History of Eusebius can fail to be impressed by the gaps in his information about the early Church.

Trending Story: Grape Collective: Rethinking the Wine Magazine Grape Collective, a new subscription - free online wine magazine, revolutionizes how wine media is consumed by introducing a digital platform that bridges the gap between reading about a wine and drinking it.

We've all read stories about the summer learning gap — a gap made even wider by lack of nutrition.

Data is read by scanning gaps between atoms and the microscope's probe.

Last September researchers narrowed that gap between reading our genome and understanding it by cataloging the activity of most of its 3 billion letters.

Thus, after partial assembly of TMAdV using overlapping reads aligning to the SAdV - 18 genome, remaining gaps were closed by specific PCR.

Two papers by Langmead and team, Ultrafast and memory - efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome and Fast gapped - read alignment with Bowtie 2, have been cited in more than 12,000 scientific studies since 2009.

If you're feeling masochistic enough to read more from scientists into the documented gap between reality and Willie Soon's research, check older RealClimate posts on Dr. Soon here, here, and here, and this generously - detailed debunk of Soon's presentation at the latest Heartland Institute climate denial conference by ecologist Richard Telford.

Fortunately, paired - end sequencing on Illumina offers a solution implemented by Maq some time ago — first, map all reads that you can without gaps, and then, look for gapped alignments in unplaced reads whose mate is mapped nearby.

Grab a copy of the GAPS diet book by Dr. Natasha, get to reading and planning, and give the GAPS diet a try.

Getting In The Gap by Dr. Wayne Dyer simplifies the concept of meditation, and explains how to get started with it better than anything else I've read.

Sooooo, I don't quite fit back into my denim skirt yet (as you can tell by the gap between the top buttons), but I missed Read More

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If you've read Janet Halfyard's excellent score analysis for Elfman's Batman score (published by Scarecrow Press, and also reviewed by MFTM), the featurette basically adds a fat chapter on the composer's transitional period from stage to film; it's already well - outlined in her book, but the DVD's interview fills in some gaps that Elfmanites will find highly informative.

It proposes an ethical theory of spectatorship to fill the gap in scholarship on his films, which very often looks at the socio - political messages implied by the content in the vein of American moralism or psychoanalytical reading of his characters and abrupt outbursts of violence.

by Walter Chaw I've been reading a lot of Thomas Friedman lately, mostly because I have glaring, embarrassing gaps in my education and popular, contemporary scholarship about our Middle East imbroglio is chief among them.

The failure was exemplified by high drop - out rates, dismal national test scores in math, reading, and other subjects, as well as widening achievement gaps.

In the South gaps closed by 0.5 s.d. in reading and 0.3 s.d. in math, but in other regions gaps are closing more slowly and in the Midwest they have increased in reading.

Tests of adult reading ability show no U.S. gender gap in reading by 25 years of age.

Create a reading list that addresses gaps and deficiencies in representation by including new authors.

«Importantly, the narrowing gap in reading achievement as students progress by year level suggests that the value - add over time that is experienced in coeducational schools is not being realised in single - sex schools,» Dix writes.

Disconcertingly, NAEP results show that for children between the ages of 9 and 13, the gender gaps in science and reading roughly double and the math gap increases by two - thirds.

Curious children often spend a great deal of time reading and acquiring knowledge because they sense a gap between what they know and what they want to know — not because they are motivated by grades.

You will find different types of activities to allow a greater differentiation in your class: - Listening activities - Videos with questions - Matching up activities - Filling gaps - Classification activities - Reading activities - Games - Grammar points context with explanations, followed by exercises and correction - Writing - Survey - Review of objectives... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Any question?

You will find different types of activities to allow a greater differentiation in your class: - Listening activities - Videos with questions - Matching up activities - Filling gaps - Classification activities - Speaking activities (surveys, games...)- Reading activities (with questions, vocabulary focus...)- Games - Grammar points in context with explanations, followed by exercises and correction - Writing - Review of objectives... Each lesson can be bought individually in my shop.

By the time the same students have reached 7th grade, these gaps have widened to 1.5 standard deviations in math and 1.25 standard deviations in reading.

Readers may also wish to read an important new essay by sociologist George Farkas, «The Black - White Test Score Gap» (Contexts, Spring 2004), which says that the racial rift is caused, more than any other thing, by divergent child - rearing practices (and preschool opportunities).

Despite widening gaps between highest - and lowest - scoring students, average scores in reading and mathematics were essentially flat from 2015 to 2017, with the exception of eighth - grade reading scores, where the percentage of proficient students increased by two percentage points.

For the past decade, school reform has been primarily about «closing achievement gaps» by boosting math and reading proficiency and graduation rates, among black, Latino, and poor students.

Catholic Schools: Private and Social Effects Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000, $ 100; 160 pages By William Sander The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools Brookings Institution, 2002, $ 28.95; 275 pages By William G. Howell and Paul Peterson, with Patrick J. Wolf and David E. Campbell As reviewed by R. Kenneth Godwin The advantage of reading The Education Gap and Catholic Schools together is in -LSB-..By William Sander The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools Brookings Institution, 2002, $ 28.95; 275 pages By William G. Howell and Paul Peterson, with Patrick J. Wolf and David E. Campbell As reviewed by R. Kenneth Godwin The advantage of reading The Education Gap and Catholic Schools together is in -LSB-..By William G. Howell and Paul Peterson, with Patrick J. Wolf and David E. Campbell As reviewed by R. Kenneth Godwin The advantage of reading The Education Gap and Catholic Schools together is in -LSB-..by R. Kenneth Godwin The advantage of reading The Education Gap and Catholic Schools together is in -LSB-...]

Disadvantaged pupils are closing the achievement gap, for All supported schools, with their peers in reading, writing and maths, according to an independent review by PwC of English schools supported by the Achievement for All programme.

It also reduced the white / African - American gap in reading by more than all the other districts.

Drawing on a study by Stanford education professor Sean Reardon, Ladd says that the gap in reading achievement between students from families in the lowest and highest income deciles is larger for those born in 2001 than for those born in the early 1940s.

In 4th grade reading, the gap was 30 points in 2003; if Rhee - like gains had taken place over the next 6 years, the gap would have been cut in half by 2009.

Four years later, she takes it as almost a personal failure that the 4th graders in her Reading First schools, more than 3,700 students, have cut the achievement gap with the state by more than half but haven't eliminated it.

Morton's view is shared by leaders in many other states, where thousands of Reading First elementary schools have reported unprecedented progress closing the «literacy gap» among the poor.

The latest performance data for primary schools shows that the gap between disadvantaged pupils and others in a combined measure of English, reading and mathematics has decreased in each of the last six years, narrowing by 1.3 per cent in the latest year and 10.5 per cent since 2011.

These early differences have longlasting ramifications as research shows that the SES gap in second, third, and fourth grade reading and mathematics skills, can be explained by the oral language abilities children bring with them to kindergarten (Durham et.

Read her response titled «Public Universities Must Not Solve Budget Gaps by Limiting Access to In - State students.»

The 1998 study by Meredith Phillips and her colleagues, mentioned earlier, had the greatest success in explaining racial differences in achievement, yet the unexplained portion of the achievement gap on the vocabulary test used in their study was still so large that it nearly exceeded the raw gap in reading and mathematics we found in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey data.

This gap is troubling, to be sure, but Peterson fails to mention that Shaker Heights blacks outperformed blacks statewide by 13 percentage points in math and nine percentage points in reading.

As in math, however, the raw test - score gap in reading widened substantially, to 0.53 standard deviations, by the end of 1st grade.

The Common Core is trying to bridge that gap by bringing nonfiction reading back into schools, in areas like social studies and science.

Thus adjusting the data for the effects of socioeconomic status reduces the estimated racial gaps in test scores by more than 40 percent in math and more than 66 percent in reading.

If black students in the sample continue to lose ground through 9th grade at the rate experienced in the first two years of school, they will lag behind white students on average by a full standard deviation in raw math and reading scores and by more than two - thirds of a standard deviation in math even after controlling for observable characteristics (the gap would be substantially smaller in reading).

In 2003, Thorstenson began laying the groundwork to implement a PLC at Work model by having her whole staff read Raising the Bar and Closing the Gap: Whatever It Takes by the DuFours and two other co-authors, and by meeting with the school board, teachers, parents, administrators and union leaders to achieve consensus on going forward with the model.