closing the gap

• Closing the Culture Gap

The delivery of foreign aid in Africa is an enormous challenge, engaging people from all over the world. In most African countries, hundreds of foreigners nals working as doctors, nurses, or technicians - are trying to help Africans better their lives. Their aims are laudable, but their results are often disappointing. Indeed, aid to Africa sometimes worsens situations. Last year's strident call for food donations to starving people in Niger prompted famine relief, which was later blamed for collapsing the prices of food grown by local farmers, ruining many of them. Cultural diversity is alive and well, and failing to acknowledge it carries unintended costs. To complicate matters, not only are there large differences between Africans and Americans, but among Africans themselves. For for...

• Stanford Social Innovation Review
• Vol. 4 Nbr. 1, April 2006

• Closing the Gap When Moving From Uk Gaap to Ifrs: A Case for the Introductory Financial Accounting Course

The case draws on the experience of Denelle Smart, assistant comptroller for financial reporting for a New Hampshire subsidiary of a London-based company. She has been assigned a role in her company's transition from UK GAAP to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) taking place throughout the European Union. In addition to describing the many challenges Denelle faces as she leads her company's transition to IFRS, this case discusses specific IAS 38 criteria, which determine how research and development costs must be accounted for under IFRS. The introductory financial accounting student is given a brief introduction to IFRS along with a review of US/UK GAAP treatment of research and development costs and capitalization of costs in general.

• Global Perspectives on Accounting Education
• Nbr. 3, January 2006

• Closing the Generation Gap

Mary Balsley had just stepped into a local elementary school class to read a Dr. Seuss book when she realized she had entered a world much different from her own at Plymouth Village retirement community in Redlands. All the faces in the audience were painted with Cat in the Hat whiskers.

• Redlands Daily Facts
• August 02, 2011

• Decision-making: closing the partnership performance GAP.

Over the years, financial professionals have sought a seat at the business table. Chief financial officers want to play a larger role in decisions imp...

• Financial Executive
• Vol. 27 Nbr. 5, June 2011

• Ruth Marcus: Closing the Gap On Boehner's Reality

The news out of House Speaker John Boehner's speech to the New York Economic Club was his demand for "cuts of trillions, not just billions" before the debt ceiling can be raised. Not just broad deficit-reduction targets, the Ohio Republican insisted, but "actual cuts and program reforms. That's alarming enough. It is all but impossible to get this done in the available time. It certainly can't be accomplished on Boehner's unbending, no-new-taxes terms. And if the speaker truly believes that it would be "more irresponsible" to raise the debt ceiling without instituting deficit-reduction measures than not to raise it at all, we're in a heap of trouble.

• San Gabriel Valley Tribune
• May 13, 2011

• Closing the Gap:

STILL SEPARATE AND UNEQUAL

• The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• May 16, 2004

• New Leadership Development Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education Focuses On Concrete Strategies for Closing the Achievement Gap

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Programs in Professional Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in collaboration with the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University today announced a new leadership development program titled: Closing the Achievement Gap: Strategies for Excellence with Equity. The program, designed for educators from settings at the fourth-grade level through high school, takes place on the HGSE campus in Cambridge, MA, from July 8-12, 2010. Leading achievement gap researcher and Harvard University professor, Ronald Ferguson, is the faculty chair for the program. Closing the Gap

• U.S. Newswire
• April 06, 2010

• Closing the Gap

Too many African-American students are behind academically. While Latino students also score lower than Whites and Asians, Spanish speakers and other students learning to speak English (known as English Learners) receive additional funding for specialized curriculums and extended after school tutoring, many African-American students continue to fall behind without spécifie interventions designed to meet their needs. Now in a few Los Angeles area schools, Black children actually score lower than English Learners on the statewide California Standards Test (CST). The difference between the academic performance of Blacks and Latinos compared to their White and Asian counterparts on standardized tests is known as the Achievement Gap. Although the term Achievement Gap is relatively new, this ...

• Sentinel; Los Angeles, Calif.
• October 01, 2009

• Closing the gap: investigating the search skills of international and US students: an exploratory study.

Introduction Academic librarians are increasingly concerned about students' information literacy. The ability to effectively search academic resourc...

• Library Philosophy and Practice
• Nbr. 2009, January 2009

• Closing the Gap

If we want to see the achievement gap gone, we've got to do different things," says school board member Johnny Winston Jr. "That doesn't mean just during the school day and that means looking to community programs too. The 50 students in attendance heard from Free Press veteran Andrea Gilmore, a graduate of Memorial High School who now attends UW-Madison: "There's a crisis in our community. It's the cancer known as the achievement gap." This chart shows the percentage of 10th-graders scoring 'proficient' or 'advanced' in 2004.

• Isthmus; Madison, Wis.
• July 27, 2009