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Abby Purdy

Worshiping in Ignorance - 0 views

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    The article addresses the idea of "religious illiteracy" in the United States as of early 2007. The author relates the lack of general religious knowledge among his students at Boston University. He believes that religious illiteracy is more dangerous than cultural illiteracy because religion is the "most volatile" constituent of culture. He notes that some knowledge of the world's religions is essential in processing messages from politicians, the media, and education. He believes that, in the interest of civics, all U.S. undergraduate students should be required to take an academic religious studies course. He also acknowledges that religious literacy in the U.S. requires compromise between the secular left and the religious right. (Abstract from EBSCO.)
Abby Purdy

Developing Language: Learning to Question, Inform, and Entertain - 0 views

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    An OhioLINK film from the series "Childhood Development: A Cognitive Approach to Developmental Psychology." Starting right from infancy, this program charts the development of language during childhood. Basic language acquisition, learned from rudimentary and higher-level child/caregiver interactions, is described. Aspects of competence that go beyond the purpose of simple communication are also considered, including the skill of using conversation for establishing and furthering social relationships, the ability to employ language as a part of games, the capacity to understand jokes, and the awareness of what other people know and understand at various stages of maturation. (25 minutes)
Abby Purdy

YWCA survey reveals women's priorities for Obama - 0 views

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    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.
John Sobey

EBSCOhost: Libby and Connie On the Bible in Schools - 0 views

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    This article gives the other side of the picture which is that the Bible is schools would limit the religious options of the students experiencing the class or course. However, farther down in this article it gives the historical "significance" of biblical study. But it still feels that having this in schools would limit the "religious freedom" of the students.
Abigail Lundy

Financial literacy | Getting it right on the money | The Economist - 0 views

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    This article talks about the state of financial literacy. What makes this article different than most of the others that I have come across, is that it talks about financial literacy in an international context. It quotes several well qualified scholars on the issue and not only discusses the need for financial literacy, but the article gives several different solutions for it, rather than just compulsory financa classes. It also discusses President Bush's new advisory on financial literacy and the consequences.
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