We are working in a number of areas, including curriculum review, widening participation, academic promotion, implicit bias training and recruitment.
Classes in economics and history in high school pushed me to think beyond government as an exclusive area of study, and so I widened my academic focus and narrowed my major choice to one in international relations.
"Showing a young student that Ph.D.s can be pretty — that there's nothing inherently unattractive about intelligence and success — may encourage her to widen her academic ambitions," Alexandra Brodsky, a law student at Yale, wrote on the Web site Feministing.
Not only can this further widen the academic gap between the 'haves' and the 'have-nots,' the fact that the higher-achieving students reap the benefits (of teacher experience) built on teachers learning from their mistakes while teaching disadvantaged students is troubling.
There is limited evidence that graduate entrants to medicine have widened the academic and socio-demographic diversity in the medical school student population in a variety of countries - including the UK [ 33].
Thus, our findings do not generally support the notion that banning affirmative action widens racial gaps in academic achievement.
Vincent, who persuaded ministers to fund a £1.2bn universal free school meals plan last year, said the development of food and leisure schemes during holiday times was the "next stage" in the battle to tackle pupil hunger and address a widening gap in academic attainment between rich and poor children.
There has been a widening spread of academic literature questioning the post-New Deal Court's treatment of economic activity, but one might doubt whether adding judicial voices to that challenge will add a great deal to its persuasiveness.
Since the 1970s, however, the value of rigorous summer school has gained increasing recognition because of research by a Johns Hopkins professor, Karl Alexander, and other sociologists showing that the academic achievement gap widens during summer vacations.
In the second period (1277 1285), when forced to leave the academic milieu, Giles widens his interests.
