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Trust 's work focuses on arraying data on student performance from k-16 and identifying strategic places for intervention to close achievement gaps ( between students of color and from low income families and more well-to-do students ) and help students meet performance standards . Description : A series of lectures by distinguished professionals designed to provide an appreciation of the role of science , technology , and the needs of society in conceiving projects , balancing the interplay of conflicting demands , and utilizing a variety of disciplines to produce unified and efficient systems . Given the long lead time necessary for new oil production to come on-line , an appreciable increase in global oil supply is improbable in the medium-term . " He explained that collaboration could pave the way to cut waste in both the Japanese and US budgets by sharing consultants and staff and reducing overlapping in projects . Villages still have to rely upon themselves to improve local roads , provide water supplies , and so on .