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Conte, C. Networking the Classroom (1995): 921-44. CQ Researcher Online. Web. This article deals with ideas of how to make classrooms more technologically advanced. It discusses the changes that have been made to techonology in the past few years, and why it is a good idea to stay technologically savy in the classroom. You can see students' benefits and their opinions to being able to use techonology in their work environment.

Agliata, Daniel, and Stacey Tantleff-Dunn. "THE IMPACT OF MEDIA EXPOSURE ON MALES' BODY IMAGE." Journal of Social & Clinical Psychology 23.1 (2004): 7-22. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 19 Nov. 2010. Most of the research done with the effects the media has on body image is done with women. However, men are also greatly effected by the media. While women are told to be thinner and smaller men are told to be stronger and bigger. Women are told to loose weight and diet while men are told to be more muscular and lift weights. In the past studies have shown that women feel the pressure to be thin because of the media. What more recent studies are showing is the increase pressure that men also feel to be more muscular.

Juel, Connie. "What Makes Literacy Tutoring Effective?" JSTOR: Reading Research Quarterly. International Reading Association 31.3 July-Aug. 1996: 268-289. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. . Print. Students who get tutored one on one often perform better than their peers. Peer tutoring helps the engagement of the student at any age. College especially, since classes are harder and it is often harder to pay attention and keep up with the work. Every tutor has their own process for their student. Peer tutoring is better since the student and tutor can relate.

Gaad, Eman. "The social and educational impacts of the first national Down Syndrome support group in the UAE." Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs 6.3 (2006), 134-142. This is an article about a study done on UAE's first Down syndrome support group. The goal of the group was to correct peoples thoughts on persons with Down syndrome. They found that the group was very beneficial, especially for children. People gained knowledge on Down syndrome and those with Down syndrom built their social skills. It also helped to promote acceptance.

King III, Charles, Michael Siegel, David H. Jernigan, Laura Wulach, Craig Ross, Karen Dixon, and Joshua Ostroff. "Adolescent Exposure to Alcohol Advertising in Magazines: An Evaluation of Advertising Placement in Relation to Underage Youth Readership." Journal of Adolescent Health 45.6 (2009): 626-33. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. In this study, it was proposed that the alcoholic drinks that are most often consumed by minors, are often put in magazines as advertisements that underage men and women are most likely to read. The study took place between 2002-06 and the results were not friendly. It was obvious after the study concluded, alcoholic drinks popular to minors were frequently put in the magazines with higher youth readership. Alcohol companies are focusing their ads to seek out the younger crowd through the popular magazines they choose to read. Although just an abstract, it will make a good reference on studies that have gained valuable research.

Guerin, Stephen H. "Internationalizing the Curriculum: Improving Learning Through International Education: Preparing Students for Success in a Global Society." Community College Journal of Research & Practice; Aug2009, Vol. 33 Issue 8, p611-614, 4p Still in view of international education, this article looks at how the education being received by the students here, although thought to be globalized, is actually really only nationalized. They did a survey of the curriculum's of various schools which have a strong international student base and found this to be true. All in all it proves its point that the notion of an international education actually most times does not do much in the way of preparing the students for an international or global education.

Talks about the major risk and protective factors are being identified and integrated into screening, prevention, and treatment programs to optimize interventions designed to reduce drinking problems among adolescents and young adults. It then goes in to how the different strategies used to combat underage drinking and whether or not they are effective. Windle, Michael, and Robert A. Zucker. "Reducing Underage and Young Adult Drinking: How to Address Critical Drinking Problems During This Developmental Period." Alcohol Research & Health 33.1/2 (2010): 29-44. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 17 Nov. 2010.

Zhao, Haixia. "Universal Usability Web Design Guidelines for the Elderly (Age 65 and Older)." Universal Universibility in Practice. April 2001. Web. 22 November 2010. http://otal.umd.edu/UUPractice/elderly/. This website has many studied and information involving the computer use of the elderly and thier opinions of computers in comparisoin with other age classes. It has a study that says that the outlooks of computers from the perspective of the elderly aren't very different at all from the perspective of a young adult. It shines a new light on the age old thought that senior citizens do not like computers, they may just not know how to use them.

Singleton Jr., Royce. "Collegiate Alcohol Consumption and Academic Performance." Journal of Studies on Alcohol (2007): n. pag. Web. 22 Nov. 2010. This article explains the correlation between drinking habits and study habits. It talks about how binge drinking is becoming a more common occurance on college campuses and that the outcomes of such drinking are not good. The article provides several statistics from research conducted that shows us the negative correlation between drinking and studying.

PARKER, M. R., FOSTER, L. N., KROHN, K. R., & WILLIAMS, R. L. (2009). Relationship of college students' patriotism to use of specific new sources and knowledge of current political events. Journal of Political & Military Sociology, 37(2), 205-226.

Crombie, Aaron P, et al. "The freshman weight gain phenomenon revisited." Nutrition Reviews 67.2 (2009), 83-94. The "freshman 15" is something every college student worries about. This article is reviewing the studies that have been done on this topic and seeing possible factors of it. They list that possible factors could be alcohol, change in physical activity, and many more. It also researches the differences between men and women in this subject. They come to conclude that freshman normally do not actually gain 15, but it appears more like it because it is less likely to be in lean weight.

Kicklighter, Jana Regina, et al. "College Freshmen Perceptions of Effective and Ineffective Aspects of Nutrition Education." Journal of American College Health 59.2 (2010): 98-104. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 19 Nov. 2010. Research was done to see how college freshman viewed their eating habbits while they have been at college. They did they by having 5 focus groups. They came to find that most of all the nutritional needs per day, based on the food pyramid, were not met. They realized that freshman have a high rate of going for food that is fast, affordable, and therefore tend to not be very healthy.

Lanter, Elizabeth, and Linda R. Watson. "Promoting Literacy in Students With ASD: The Basics for the SLP." Language, Speech & Hearing Services in Schools 39.1 (2008): 33-43. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. This article talks about how teachers are more concerned in their literacy teaching skills to people with autism. Research has found that oral language skills of autistic children are similar in their reading development. Teachers are trying to prepare children with ASD for standardized tests of literacy, and progress in higher levels of academics. Reading skills can improve their oral skills as well.

Inan, Fethi A, and Deborah L. Lowther. "Factors Affecting Techonology Integration in K-12 Classrooms: A Path Model." Education and Technology Research & Development 58.2 (2010): 137-54. Academic Search Complete. Web. This article discusses the posibilites of making classrooms in primary grades more technologically advanced. It goes into how this would affect students in positive and negative ways. Would introducing students to techonology at a younger age benefit them more in the future? This is the question that people ask themselves to determine the most beneficial style of learning, and how to improve the learning techniques of children.

Hyde, Janet S., and Janet E. Mertz. "Gender, culture, and mathematics performance." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106.22 (2009): 8801-8807. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 22 Nov. 2010. This article talks about if there is a relationship between gender, culture and mathematics performance. They go through three questions the want to answer -Do gender differences in mathematics performance exist in the general population? Do gender differences exist among the mathematically talented? Do females exist who possess profound mathematical talent? The article talks about how some countries have closed the gap such as England but the USA has not. They go to answer all of the questions through the research they do and have charts/graphs.

"Narrowing of Math Gender Gap." Annals of the American Psychotherapy Association 12.3 (2009): 9. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 22 Nov. 2010. The University of Wisconisn- Madison did research on the math gender gap and this was due to a article "Culture, Not Biology, Underpins Math Gender Gap," published in "ScienceDaily" on June 2, 2009. With more math education they think that we can close the gender gap. Also they found that women with job opportunities are helping close the gap too.

Glazer, Sarah. "Future of Books" 2010. CQ Researcher. Vol 19. pg 473-500. Web. 20 Nov 2010. This article is about how books are going from being the print form to the electronic for as e-books. It includes how they are adding things such as video, sound, and graphics to the text. Some people fear that this will cause the loss of literacy and the dangers the world's store of knowledge will face if it becomes completely digital. While e-books still don't take up a large portion of books sold, it is predicted to increase as the main group of consumers, middle-aged women, is replaced with newer generations.

Schneider, Joan. "Besides Google: Guiding Gifted Elementary Students onto the Entrance Ramp of the Information Superhighway." Gifted Child Today 32.1 (2009): 27-31. ERIC. EBSCO. Web. 22 Nov. 2010. In this, Schneider explores how the internet is affecting gifted students in how they find resources that their libraries just can't possibly contain. Within the last decade the internet has become a major tool and curriculum are being changed to go along with it. The ones that are excelling are the students that can process large amounts of information quickly and relatively accurately.

Walsh, Maureen. "Worlds have collided and modes have merged: classroom evidence of changed literacy practices." Literacy, Volume 42, issue 2 (July 2008), p. 101-108. OhioLINK. Web. 20 November 2010 Debates continue in public and in educational policy forums about the 'basics' of literacy while many have not recognised that these basics may never be the same again. Rapid changes in digital communication provide facilities for reading and writing to be combined with various and often quite complex aspects of music, photography and film. At the same time, educational policy and national testing requirements are still principally focused on the reading and writing of print-based texts. This paper examines evidence from classroom research to analyse the nature of multimodal literacy, the literacy that is needed in contemporary times for reading, viewing, responding to and producing multimodal and digital texts. Examples of students' engagement in multimodal literacy are presented to demonstrate how classroom literacy practices can incorporate the practices of talking, listening, reading and writing together with processing the modes of written text, image, sound and movement in print and digital texts.

Price, Tom. "Journalism Standards in the Internet Age." 2010. CQ Researcher. Vol 20. pg 821-844. Web. 21 Nov 2010. In the article, Price goes over how journalism has changed through the years and more recently with the internet. He gives standards that have been aimed for throughout its history and then clearly gives the differences between news and opinion. With the use of "news-like" websites, this seperation and standards are not always used and seen. With the pressure of the internet and the shrinking news staff, serious journalist wonder what will survive and rise up in the next few decades.