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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)

A scholarly article written by the Dean of the North Carolina at Chapel hill, speaks of what college students should do and what teachers should do, to get off cheating. How to promote academic honesty and integrity for business schools around the world.

Article focuses on the academic dishonesty in college students mainly under the business schools. Also goes to further show dishonesty in real world jobs.

This column is a sort of "Dear Abby" column for people looking for answers on how to be better world citizens. Obviously, not scholarly, but they do provide some interesting ideas and links to other sources.

Our students are falling behind their counterparts in the rest of the world, threatening the U.S.'s economic future. Why national education standards are the only way to fix the system

This article is about bringing virtual technology in the classroom. Making young kids technologicly literate. By bringing more learning aids through thechnology to make the young people more literate

An opinion piece, but offers some interesting theories on the future of publishing and Kindle.

Palmer, Kimberly. "The Best Inheritance of All." U.S. News & World Report 144.18 (2008), 70-70. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Roesch Lib., U. of Dayton, Dayton, OH. 14 Mar. 2009.

Palmer discusses the positive impact that her mother's financial advise made on her life. In addition the article also references a study that suggests that Parents that teach their kids about the positive impact that money management can have on their lives can help them made better informed decisions as adults. Many parents lack the knowledge of financial literacy themselves and therefore their children grow up knowing very little about the importance financial literacy. The lack of financial literacy knowledge among the youth has caused unease and has inspired new programs designed to help parents teach their children.

This article from Direction's Magazine online was written by Alexander Murphy who is a professor of geology at the University of Oregon. This article talks about how America's lack of knowledge about the wolrd is a negative thing since we are in a position of strength in it. It uses knowledge about Iraq during the war as an example.

This article is about a woman named Barbara Thomas. She has her early childhood classroom set up to encourage literacy. She has a large book corner with a circle rug. She uses the The Environmental Literacy Scan which is a program that develops as an outgrowth of a survey of kindergarten teachers' beliefs and practices is designed to assess literacy opportunities. The scan is all about how a room is setup for learning.

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.

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.