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Archive for the ‘310’ Category
Eng 310 Comments
Posted in 310 on April 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Concluding Statement (310)
Posted in 310 on April 16, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I can honestly say that Eng 310 and 311 have been two of my favorite classes that I have taken so far at Grand Valley. This post, however will only deal with 310. For this blog my topic was, very broadly, diversity in schools. This expanded and contracted and ended up dealing with those students [...]
Bright Ideas Conference
Posted in 310, 311 on April 16, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I really enjoyed the Bright Ideas conferecne. I felt that I learned a lot in a short amount of time…and for a small price. It was nice that the presenters were people who were in the field or practicing to be in the field. This made it a little less intimidating, and more effective, than [...]
Dividing Communities
Posted in 310 on April 12, 2007 | 11 Comments »
Schools are often talked about as pillars of communities. They are seen as a way to keep children and families together, and to keep people interacting with one another. This, however, is not the case with one East Harlem school.
Ms. Velasquez and the other parents of almost 200 students in the school’s[St. Francis de Sales] [...]
Educating the Perfect Student
Posted in 310 on April 5, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I have written before about the admission process for high schools and how closely it resembled that of college. Well, the Chicago Tribune recently published another article outlining the process for applying to private schools at any age. The same feeling overwhelmed me while reading this article as the previous one. The feeling that these [...]
Gay Schools
Posted in 310 on March 2, 2007 | 8 Comments »
I can’t remember a time when homosexuality wasn’t a hot-button issue, especially when it comes to education. Let me just say that i grew up in the christian school system and always balked at the messages about how being gay was bad or wrong. However, being a christian school they have the right to say [...]
Racist Testing?
Posted in 310 on February 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The New York Times recently published an article on AP testing in high school kids. What’s controversial about that? Well, according to the statistics that they found minority kids (specifically African American) are sorely underrepresented in these classes. They threw out many statistics in the article (too many if you want my opinion, but after [...]
Appropriately Size Me
Posted in 310 on February 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I do not eat fast food (or I rarely do), I don’t eat meat and I try to excercise a fair amount. I am a model American, right? According to the movie Super Size Me I would be close. Morgan Spurlock, the documentary’s director and star seems to be arguing this point. However, from the [...]
Pressure Cooker?
Posted in 310 on February 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
For my 310 blog I have FINALLY decided on economic diversity and related issues for my blog topic so here is a post relating to that.
I recently read an article from the Chicago Tribune about 8th grade students vying for limited spots in the cities college prep high schools. It was crazy! The process that [...]
Money Makes the World go ‘Round
Posted in 310 on February 1, 2007 | 4 Comments »
It is no secret that money can buy you much of your education in this country. In fact, that is much of what the current educational reforms are trying to deal with (however unsuccessfully). But perhaps it’s not simply the lack of money that is accounting for schools failures to achieve. Perhaps its the fact [...]
