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This document is about an example of the teaching of Biblical studies in the classroom and how it affects the student. This also gives a few examples of different churchs and their belief or ideas about the teaching of religion in schools.

This article gives an example of a third grade girl that is attending a vacation bible school. This article, edited by Megan Greulich, shows examples about how teaching the stories in the Bible can contribute to the understanding of a childs learning ability.

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.

This document is a example of the problem that the community is having with the teaching of the Bible in schools today. This aricle is about a lawsuit that forced a Texas school to drop their Bible classes before of one of the settlement made in court.

Supiano explains the extreme need for financial literacy in college campuses, where students are adults, yet still have very little financial knowledge or independence. Supiano discusses that without the new initiatives for new finance classes at colleges, non-business students would graduate with very little financial literacy, but in many cases with a lot of debt. This article paints a very great picture of the situation of our college financial literacy. The article gives helpful knowledge into some examples of college literacy initiatives, and offers many possible solutions to the financial literacy problem among college students.

These article provides information on academic support programs for student athletes. Various athletic-academic scandals have forced universities to provide needed academic support to student athletes. Campus consensus on academic support program must be developed by involving central administration, faculty, and athletic department personnel. Before selling up an athletic support program, a careful self-assessment can also serve as an example of institutional reform. A decision must be made whether the program should operate internally in the athletic department or externally in the campus administration. The first step in beginning an academic support program is assessing athletes through testing and records. The program should emphasize skill development and counseling, preferably in programs already existing for the general student body on campus. Budgets for large programs range between $250,000 to $500,000 a year. The program should be annually evaluated by looking at retention and graduation rates of student athletes. The program's success depends on the commitment of the university and the participation of the community.

A film on OhioLINK. Could be useful for students analyzing the rhetoric of politics. As Maya Angelou points out in The Power of Speech, "If the words and delivery are powerful, they echo down the centuries." To emphasize the point, Angelou and other writers and orators examine the moving oratory of 14th-century tax protester John Ball, 19th-century slave Sojourner Truth, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Each speaker's technique is examined within the context of why the speech is being delivered, and to whom. Examples of how great orators throughout history have used their skills for good and evil drive home the immense power of the spoken word. A BBC Production. (30 minutes)

A film on OhioLINK. Could be useful for students analyzing the rhetoric of politics. As Maya Angelou points out in The Power of Speech, "If the words and delivery are powerful, they echo down the centuries." To emphasize the point, Angelou and other writers and orators examine the moving oratory of 14th-century tax protester John Ball, 19th-century slave Sojourner Truth, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Each speaker's technique is examined within the context of why the speech is being delivered, and to whom. Examples of how great orators throughout history have used their skills for good and evil drive home the immense power of the spoken word. A BBC Production. (30 minutes)

In this document, which is more like a debate, there is an argument using many good biblical examples to prove or disprove that faith plays a vital role in historical research. In the end of this article the chosen "correct answer" is that faith does play a role in historical research. Also mentioned, was that faith actually connects some of the historical events to today because of some of faiths traditions that have lived on.

This story is about a course that lasted 34 years and the University of Iowa. This document described how being able to teach the Bible to the class allow the students to learn more efficiently and made them more capable in the long run. This article gives specific examples such as the agenda on which the class was run as well as some of the student's feedback on the overall situation of teaching that course.

This article gives a few examples of the way the Bible was used and how it influenced some of the famous writers such as Shakespeare. Throughout the article it gives statistics and facts about how the bible influenced and was used in his work. So overall this article described the ways that literacy benefited from the Bible's literacy.

'Mozart Effect' Revisted talks about the history of the Mozart Effect, which is a study method for students to use when withholding information. In this text, it''s combining the Mozart Effect with children. For example, Ten years ago Chinese University neuropsychologist Agnes Chan reported that adults who had been taking music lessons for more than 6 years had better memory for words.

This NYT article is about how the way we refer to and treat the elderly (calling them "dear" or speaking loudly to them, for example) can affect their health. Such studies have broader ranging implications. When we call others derogatory names, can it affect their health? Does using "baby talk" affect the language development of children? Do our assumptions about teenagers affect their intellectual development?

This article starts off explaining brief history on the Mozart Effect and how it influence the way the mind and music connect together. Will Dowd, the author, also goes on explaining Don Campbell, who wrote the "The Mozart Effect or Children". Dowd uses an example for Campbell's book explaining " Mozart's music enhance the network of connection forming in the infant brain." Towards the end of the article, Dowd explain how there are scientists out there that feel that the Mozart Effect is ineffective.