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This article was a study that examined nutritional education, label reading behavior, and compared these answers with age, sex, education level. The study was aimed to test label reading in correlation to previous nutritional education and knowledge level. This source had good statistics in the introduction. The paper may have been alittle off my topic but did have useful conslusions on to who reads the nutrtional labels. The test was mostly women, undergraduates, and nonsmokers, so may have been bias in people being studied.

The general website for the Bilingual Research Journal, a journal of the National Association for Bilingual Education and the Southwest Center for Education Equity and Language Diversity, this site contains full-text articles focusing on bilingual education, available in PDF format.

This article was a study that examined nutritional education, label reading behavior, and compared these answers with age, sex, education level. The study was aimed to test label reading in correlation to previous nutritional education and knowledge level. This source had good statistics in the introduction. The paper may have been alittle off my topic but did have useful conslusions on to who reads the nutrtional labels. The test was mostly women, undergraduates, and nonsmokers, so may have been bias in people being studied.

Oladejo writes this article speaking about foreign language education in Taiwan. It describes that the government is very appalling when it comes to getting input from the public that's concerns determining the language education in Taiwan. The process they use many a times has had complaints, and the public hopes for it to be better. There are many charts that Oladejo adds to his article with results of questionaires sent out to parents. Questionaires conclude many answers that parents have regarding when English should start being taught. The author also uses many other charts to show details in his work, and his article is very well put together.

A film on OhioLINK. Helping children to grow and bloom properly also means taking into account their biological rhythms. This program seeks out holistic approaches to education that more scientifically organize the school day and strike a better balance between intellectual and physical development. Educators, psychologists, a geneticist, a philosopher, and others consider topics such as the times of day when students are most ready to learn and the role of play in the developing child. They also question the effectiveness of lectures and take a penetrating look at the video game phenomenon. (53 minutes, color)

This article written by Young speaks about how Vietnamese parents were given questionaires regarding the use of bilingual education in the San Diego City Schools. It goes on to speak about how parents agree that being bilingual will eventually help them later on in life, but learning their primary language is more important. Young teaches in his article the methods of this study, and he explains the data that was collected in very good detail, there are also many quick reading and helpful charts as well.

An eye-opening article written by Loeb depicts the political uproar over the youth vote. Stunning statistics show a 60% to 38% difference in Democratic over Republican candidates. The main obstacle that the Democrats are speaking about is the financial barriers affecting the affordability of higher education. Loeb also depicts a general sense that the Republican administration has cut Federal Financial Aid from the budget. This article can be helpful to bring awareness to the position of our youth facing political opposition over the financial barriers of higher education and how the Democrats are capturing the youth vote by making student financial aid a priority.

In this article, Feazell explains the RAP system. The system is used by many special education programs to enhance reading skills. The system is based on Phonemic awareness training, Dictation, Phonics readers practice, Fluency training, Eliciting positive emotion, Assessing. While RAP may not specifically teach comprehension skills it does teach fluency by combining neurological impress and phonics instruction. Full PDF available

One possibility for those interested in sports to consider is the concept of physical literacy, here called "movement literacy," the idea that just as our minds learn to function at higher levels and acquire new skills, our bodies must do the same. However, between phyical education budgets being cut and increasing importance placed on technology, our understanding of movement literacy is decreasing. This article focuses on students in Kenya, where the most original innovative learning takes place during unstructed playtime. Includes a PDF and several photographs.

This article from ERIC, the Education Resources Information Center, a great free database for anyone doing research related to education, discusses aliteracy among college students. The PDF format is available via the link at the top of the page. It would be beneficial for all students to check out because it is an example of a well-written, college-level research paper.

A study found that women still lag far behind men in top political and decision-making roles, though their access to education and health care is nearly equal.

Published in the British Journal of Educational Studies, this article reviews an Australian national project on youth participation in democracy. The article explores the abstinence of political behaviors such as voting and participating in political engagement. This article can be used to compare the youth in Australia's democracy and the youth involvement in America's democracy.

The Educational Testing Service, the nonprofit group behind the SAT, Graduate Record Examination and other college tests, has developed a new test that it says can assess students' ability to make good critical evaluations of the vast amount of material available to them.

A partnership between the software giant and the Philadelphia School District is an innovative solution to an urban crisis. But can public education survive private management?

The NBA, which cares about higher education only as a source of player development, hypocritically praises the Toronto Raptors star's graduation side trip. An opinion piece, so shallow on facts, but has links to other sites.

The British tackled their own education gender gap by letting boys be boys -- with mixed results.

A film on OhioLINK. From the beginning of time, women have had the same thirst for knowledge as men, but were denied access to education. This program looks at the religious attitudes that support these age-old convictions, and examines what the world has lost by excluding women from the intellectual loop. Scriptural scholar Elaine Pagels tells about newly discovered documents suggesting that women were equal to men in early Christianity. Historian Ginette Paris looks at the powerful goddesses of the past who were shunted aside in favor of the submissive image of the Virgin Mary. A Bangladeshi writer faces a death decree for writing about Islam's oppression of women. At Wellesley College and the University of Norway, we visit programs devoted exclusively to women's studies. (47 minutes, color) (cc)

This article is based out of Israel and their education system. The Bible is used in the academic parts of Israel according to this document. Furthermore, it tells how they believe that the community uses the Bible to shape the next generation into what they believe is a good person. Moreover, it explains the lifestyle of the group of people called "Zionist" which was where these beliefs seemed to originate from.

The author states that children instinctively understand music. She believes since both music and reading are im portant that they should be used in combination to teach literacy. Using evidence from the Mozart effect studies, she stress the importance of music in education

Signal and team explore New Zealand and the low-income inhibiters. This study used focus groups to question 158 shoppers. They concluded that many did not have time to read the labels or did not have the understanding to do so. This study was well organized and had useful conclusions. Also its background was informative, and the study itself added that people of New Zealand lack education to read the nutrition labels, it is not just in the US.