English 102 - Spring 2009

Many college sports teams who have athletes who perform well on the field are struggling in the classroom. Graduation rates for student athletes are not great but the NCAA is trying to fix the problems.

The book industry will suffer a hit when the Harry Potter books aren't as popular. So many people read all the books and it was such a great time for the finances of the book business. Many people agree that Harry Potter will be missed.

This article discusses the positive impact that the Harry Potter books have on children's reading. Since so many poeple have read the series or seen the movies, the books can constantly be referred to by teachers.

Many people are curious as to what things new President Barack Obama will do to solve our struggling economy. People can start to gain financial literacy beginning in high school. This article is stating how we need to understand how we can help the economy instead of just sitting on the side.

This is an article that mentions ideas about ways to help manage a person's finances. Many adults don't completely understand their finances, and this article exlains ways in how enhanced schooling can help someone become more knowledgable.

Americans are not the only people facing a financial literacy crisis according to this article. The Canadian governments new budget calls for the creation of financial programs. During the recent economic crisis many Canadians have amassed debt and the government aims to quell this trend. The United States government is also trying to implement similar programs for its citizens.

This article focuses on the implementation of early financial programs for young children. Financial literacy is a skill which all individuals will need throughout their life. Studies have found that individuals who received financial education in high school reported an increase up to 1.5% in their assets when compared to individuals who did not receive any education. While adding these course is certainly beneficial there are still a number of challenges. There is a cost to create such programs and some school districts are already facing budget problems.

Today's consumers are faced with difficult financial decisions everyday. Making the wrong choice could cost someone their savings or their home. By becoming financially literate people decrease the risk that they will become victims of financial mistakes such as aquiring excessive debt or associating with predatory lenders. Many families have only one spouse take care of all the finances and this could lead to problems should that spouse die.

This article focuses on the financial education of American consumers. The researchers have labeled Americans as having excess debt, poor retirement planning and insufficient savings. They believe one answer to the financial problems facing Americans has to do with the amount of financial information available. In some cases credit cards provide too much information and technical terms which may confuse the consumer. On the other hand when there is too little information the consumer may not be able to make proper choices.

Would lowering the legal age help colleges curb alcohol abuse?

An opinion piece by well-known anti-theist Christopher Hitchens.

An opinion piece by Christopher Hitchens, a well-known anti-theist.

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.

This is an article based on Sandra Day O'Connor's views on issues such as the No Child left behind act and other political issues. This article also mentions that O'Connor will create a web-based learning system to teach kids the civics they will not be learning in school because of the no child left behind act. This will be a helpful article if you are researching the education system, NCLB, or social studies.

This article explores how genetics makes differences in learning for children. It researches two children and based on these results it makes assumptions about genetic roles playing apart in learning. It goes on to say the results of their findings and what they have learned and infered as a result. It is helpful if you are researching the effects of genetics on literacy or effects of literact learning rates in children.

This article is about teen literacy and how the authors of teen lit books view the effects of their books on teen readers. It says that it give information on urban areas that the readers may or may not be familiar with but can in both situations learn from it. It also talks about the way in which they chose their main characters. It is a good artcile if you are researching literacy and novels or teenagers.

This involves a program called PictoPal that helps children read. It will help them read and writed. It tells how this program helped the children with their literacy and what this program does.

This article is about a digital learning program called pictopal that was created to help children learn how to read and write. This article talks about the effects of this experiment and whether or not it was successful. It also gives an overview of how the program was initiated to the studetns. This would be a helpful article if you are looking for information on how digital program effects learning.

This aritcle takes a look at how civics literacy is evolving with the technological advances of our time. The article goes on to talk about how technology has been helping these students learn. How the students can get more information and therefore a new way of learning through technological advances. This is a good source if you are looking for information on the evolution of civics learning

This article talks about the need to improve education in schools. It gives information on ways in which we can go about making this change, such as using digital literacy. This article talks about both teachers effects and students effects. This is a helpful article if you are interested in researching how literacy is being changed, or ways in which people are thinking about changing it, either for the better or the worse.

This article is based on a study released by the United States about the No child left behind act. The study is about how the act leaves out social studies, languages and the arts from schools. The only good that came from cutting out these subjects of study from school is that the rates of increase in learning for math sciense and reading/writing have gone up drammatically. This article is good if you are looking at the no child left behind act.