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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Abby Purdy

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Latin Returns From Dead in School Language Curriculums - 0 views

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    The resurgence of a language once rejected as outdated and irrelevant is reflected across the country as Latin is embraced by a new generation of students
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Doctors Often Overestimate Patients' Health Literacy - 0 views

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    Many patients misunderstand the written questions American doctors have them answer before physical exams, a finding that calls into question the usefulness of these screening tools, new reports say.
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Child Centered Literacy Orientation: A Form of Social Capital? - 0 views

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    To describe the home literacy environment and to identify financial, human, and social capital variables associated with the presence or lack of Child Centered Literacy Orientation (CCLO) in families with young children who regularly attend pediatric primary care clinics. Could be helpful for those studying literacy and family, especially among single-parent families.
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Literacy in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Theory, and Practice - 0 views

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    Good for background information.
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Calories Do Count - 0 views

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    Complex diet regimens are starting to look like exotic mortgages and, just like a reliable savings account, good old calorie counting is coming back into fashion.
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Want to Vote, Can't Read - 0 views

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    An article about literacy that cuts to the heart of American citizenship and probably reflects the experience of many people across all races and ethnicities.
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World Englishes - 0 views

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    This essay is an overview of the theoretical, methodological, pedagogical, ideological, and power-related issues of world Englishes: varieties of English used in diverse sociolinguistic contexts. The scholars in this field have critically examined theoretical and methodological frameworks of language use based on western, essentially monolingual and monocultural, frameworks of linguistic science and replaced them with frameworks that are faithful to multilingualism and language variation. This conceptual shift affords a "pluricentric" view of English, which represents diverse sociolinguistic histories, multicultural identities, multiple norms of use and acquisition, and distinct contexts of function. The implications of this shift for learning and teaching world Englishes are critically reviewed in the final sections of this essay.
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Speak, Cultural Memory: A Dead-Language Debate - 0 views

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    Over the last seven years, Jessie Little Doe Fermino, a member of the Mashpee tribe on Cape Cod, has been on a single-minded mission to revive the language of her ancestors, Wampanoag, the one that greeted the Pilgrims when they landed at Plymouth Rock and that gave the state of Massachusetts its name. But when she applied to the National Endowment of the Humanities for a grant to create a Wampanoag dictionary, she was turned down. The apparent reasons: the Wampanoag language has not been used in about 100 years, the known descendants of the original speakers number only 2,500 and Ms. Fermino is trying to make a spoken language out of a language that until recently existed only in documents, many of them from the 17th century.
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Keeping the Student in Student-Athlete - 0 views

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    The latest NCAA graduation success rate report shows UD in the top 10 nationally with Notre Dame, Duke and Northwestern, among others.
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Should tots watch TV? - 0 views

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    Most kids under 2 are parked in front of the electronic babysitter every day. Author Lisa Guernsey explains how the tube impacts the smallest couch potatoes. A worthwhile article that explains some of the reasoning behind children's television. I can only assume that the book would be worth checking out too.
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Is "Barney" destroying my kids' brains? - 0 views

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    A few weeks ago, a study connected TV watching to ADHD. But the findings have been blown way out of proportion.
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Number of Male Teachers Hits New Low - 0 views

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    Stereotyping, low pay, lack of role models. Why the number of men teaching in schools is at a 40-year low.
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Girls and the 'Alpha Effect' - 0 views

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    Assessing how boys and girls influence each other. It might be worth looking up the article the author references.
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Study Abroad Flourishes, With China a Hot Spot - 0 views

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    The number of Americans studying in China increased by 25 percent last year, according to a new report.
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Mandating Calorie Counts on Menus Nationwide - 0 views

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    Would a national law requiring calorie counts on chain restaurant menus help curb the obesity epidemic, or would we stay in 'Dining Denial'?
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Cuomo Investigating Colleges' Deals With Health Insurers - 0 views

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    The investigation by the attorney general appears to be focused on the adequacy of disclosure of policy terms and costs to students.
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The End Of Arts Funding? - 0 views

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    This article does a good job of explaining why supporting the arts may do more than just enrich our souls, it may enrich our wallets too.
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