English 102 - Spring 2009

This article talks about how the social studies classroom is spending much of its time teaching literacy. While it is important for the extra literacy teaching, the article talks about how parents are worried about a lack in social studies education because of this. The cause for the extra literacy teachings in the social studies classroom is to prepare the students for the state mandated testing that places much more importance on literacy than on civics. This is a good source if you are researchign the effects of the no child left behind act

This article gives a different idea for replacing the No child left behind act. The new idea would include more civics teaching to create citizens, which the author emphasizes is an important part of the system. Also, the author mentions that the NCLBA is too focused on economic success that it is blinsided by the actual facts. This is a good article if you are looking for information on NCLBA and the effects of it.

This article is Lee Hamiltons opinion on civics education in the US. In his opinion he makes it clear that children should be learning much more on politics and civics than they currently are. Also that the programs such as the no child left behind act should include more civics. This will be helpful if you are researching civics and the no child left behins act

This article talks about the increase in academic skills as a result of the no child left behind act.The article continues to talk about the importance placed on the children to score well in math science and writing and how they are to leave out other classes such as social studies and the arts. This is a helpful article if you are researching NCLB and the effects of the act.

This article is about the lessening education in Civics courses in schools around the US. It also talks about the No child left behind act and its role in losing civics education in the classroom. The article continues to talk about the amount of money the schools will be getting in order to educate students in civics more. This would be a good article if you need information on the amount of money spent on trying to reinstate social studies education in schools.

This article is about how the former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor thinks the civics program in the education system should be changed. She talks about creating a web-based program to help teach the kids civics lessons that they will be more interested in. She also talks a little on how the No child left behind act ruined the social studies education for children. This is helpful if you are researching the no child left behind act or anything on civics education.

This article is about how the No Child Left Behind Act is hurting the social studies departments in schools. The social studies teachers are not teaching as well as they should because they are more worried about getting kids up to par on their test scores. They are teaching ways to pass a test in stead of teaching the cirriculum. This is causing kids to not have as good of an education as they should. This is a good article if you are researching the no child left behind act

This article talks about civic education in american publics schools and how it is harder to find now. One of the ways the articles talks about changing this is by adding in a service plan. This plan is being created to teach the kids to become better citizens and to help them learn civics. This would be a good reference if you are researching the lack of civics in the education program.

This article talks about how the republican capistalists have destroyed the public school systems. It discusses how the No child left behind Act has been very detrimental for the public school systems. The article goes on to discuss how the republicans also do no give the impoverished schools enough money, yet expect the same from them. This article would be helpful if you are researching the No child left behind act or the effects of it on public school systems.

The authors of this article talk about he achievement gap among students that are wealthier compared to lower class. The wealthier student get a lot more of the needs and get the support from home, while the lower class do not get as much and do not always have that support. In this article many studies were conducted. These are reliable studies that show how poverty among students can cause more problems in a childs academic development.

The author here realizes an important problem. He believes that students that live in poverty need to change their live styles and when they reach 4th and 5th grades, that is the ear things need to change. This is the place in a childs life that determins how they percieve school for the rest of thir lives. Th author says that teachers need to understand that these students were born into poverty and do not have much direction. Teachers need to understand and be able to help the students when they need it.

The author of this article describes how class and race can affect a persons life and what they do with their lives. The author has done a lot of research on different topics to see if the effects of a childs race or social status really have an effect on thier education. They found that children living in poverty have a less chance of succeding in academics. The main point of this article addresses is the African American population, but that is not always completly the case.

This particular survey reviews religious trends that have occurred between the period 1990-2008. This 18-year period provides an excellence examination of recent shifts in religiosity. Moreover, the source will provide a background from which to infer future trends in secularization, in addition to determining its implications on scientific literacy.

This Christian source provides a host of antievolution arguments with references to scripture. The arguments span beyond the scope of biological evolution, including information regarding several branches of science and theology. The ideas are created and supported by scholars and academics. This source is important for examining the creationist side of the argument, and analyzing the ways in which the two views can be reconciled in a way that maintains scientific literacy.

This article and author brings up many good points that the American people do not usually see. They start off by saying how the No Child Le Behind Act was implemented to help students get a good education and a fair one. The author then goes into how it has failed to meet the requirements and is supporting inequality. the idea of this act is not to bring attention to the economic problems with students, but to help the students achieve a quality education.

The author in this article explains that there needs to be a solution to find how to close the achievement gap. They thought that more programs for the children would decrease the problem, but it is still a problem today. The author came up with that if parents get more involved in their childrens school work, then theie achievement will increase.

The author of this article explains how teacher quality has been an ongoing issue and a big concern for many. The No Child Left behind Act focuses on having good qualified teachers that will improve test scores of their students. The article says how there is not clear meaning on what a qualified teacher is. One can not determine weather a teacher is qualified. it also talks about how they asses a teacher to determine weather they are qualified enough to teach.

The author here thinks that technology should b used in all the classrooms and it diferentiates instruction. When mentioned to students they seem more enthused about learning. The author conducted a lot of research on how to incorporate testing into assessment. They give all the posiives about online testing and the advantages to it. The article also gives places where teachers can creat online tests and implement it into their classroom more.

Apprehension, with an enduring edge to it. That's the general mood among the twentysomethings I've heard from during the last several weeks in response to a question I asked about how the recession is making them feel.

An op-ed piece from Slate.