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marital conflict and poor sleep habits have a negative impact on children's academic performance

Lems describes the ways music has influenced her classroom. She talks about how her students are adults in an English language course. Through out the article she explains how through music based activities, positive attitude and affect, listening comprehesion, and oral and pronunciation practice helped her students become bilingual.

An experiment using music to teach English-as-a-second langauge to elementary aged children. All the students were native Spanish-speaking first graders. The author explains how the students are expected to learn Spanish writing and reading first but then switch to an English curriculum. She used songs and music to help them transition to English. Overall every student was successfully singing nine songs in English by the end of the experiment. Available on ERIC.ed.gov ERIC #ED371571

This article has a good view on how to deal with our non-literate children. It gives ways to help children with disabilities to become better readers and writers.

This article explores the differences in literacy experiences between males and females. Students in particular. It is relatively easy to read, and is about 10 pages long. It seems to be geared towards teachers, but we as students, researching literacy, can gain a lot as well.

This article provides a description of many reasons that render college students alcoholic people. It also discusses the effects of binge drinking on students, one of which is poor academic performance. Then, it presents several methods that could be followed to control alcohol abuse on campus. This article effectively portrays the importance of controlling the consumption of alcohol on campus. However, It does not thoroughly discuss the relationship between alcohol abuse and academic performance, although it includes this idea in the title.

Why college football is more cutthroat and competitive than the NFL. Slate articles cannot be transferred to Diigo. You can access this article at: http://www.slate.com/id/2203927/

Leland discusses how talking down to elderly people, "elderspeak," has a negative effect on their health and outlook of life. These negative effects lead to decreased self-esteem, depression, and even a reduction in life expectancy. Most people actually get infuriated when they are talked to like a child, and say it is an insult to their integrity. Dr. Becca Levy of Yale University says health care workers are some of the worst offenders of elderspeak and are unaware of the negative implication it has on patients, that such patronizing language gives the message that patients are incompetent.

Vernon, lead author of this report, and fellow colleagues, discuss the economic inefficiency in the U.S. healthcare system caused by low health literacy. Annual costs to the U.S. economy are in the billion dollar range. The report shows that low health literacy is associated with lack of stable coverage and reliable health care access, a national health reform to improve health literacy would result in major savings as well as better health care. Vernon and associates make valid points to the cost of low health literacy to the economy.

First in a series of occasional short takes on unusual courses in local schools.

More than three-fourths of young women, those ages 18-29 and known as Generation Y, want incoming President Barack Obama to make civil rights and racial justice top priorities of his administration, a survey says.

So just which book "about F.D.R.'s first 100 days" was President-elect Barack Obama talking about when he appeared on "60 Minutes" on Sunday?

Tuition and fees increased 439 percent from 1982 to 2007, while median family income rose 147 percent.