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My future efforts to end the achievement gap – advice?

I’m an English major, and my career goal is to be a high school or middle school English teacher. This term, on the suggestion of an academic advisor, I am taking a lower division education studies class, to get a feel for the program and to get a better idea of some of the struggles teachers encounter. Right now we’re talking about the achievement gap, which specifically relates to the standardized test score differences between affluent Caucasian and Asian students, and everyone basically. Most of the attention is geared towards the differences between the Caucasian students and the African American and Hispanic students. Not so much attention is paid to the differences in test scores based on economic status, but I digress.

One of the questions posed to us as future teachers, is what do we plan on doing to eliminate the achievement gap and make minority students feel more comfortable at school so that their performance increases. I would really like to work in a school district that is urban and of lower funding. Part of my reasoning for this, I will admit, is so I can get some of my student loans repayment decreased, but I also want to be a teacher to help people, and the children that attend low funded urban schools are usually the most at risk for poverty later in life. What I would like to do to make minority students feel more comfortable is to expose them ...

Non-Hormonal Birth Control Options?

I’ve had the copper IUD Paraguard for a little over a year now and I’m mostly happy with it. There’s just one problem. In the last three months, my skin has broken out worse than it ever has in my entire life, with multiple cystic acne on my cheeks and chin. I’ve done a little bit of research, and there are quite a few other women who have experienced the same problem after having Paraguard for a while.

I’m seriously considering changing birth control methods but I’d really prefer a method that is hormone free, and hopefully one that doesn’t kill the mood too much (kind of like the diaphragm, where you have to take a time out for five to ...

I’ve had the copper IUD Paraguard for a little over a year now and I’m mostly happy with it. There’s just one problem. In the last three months, my skin has broken out worse than it ever ...

“One Regular, One Indian” Are you freaking kidding me?

I was browsing different websites today, as I typically do when I am bored, and I found a link to this little gem from a video game forum I frequent: One Regular, One Indian

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I don’t know why, but for some reason I was astounded by the ignorance of the two white girls here. I was also disgusted. Here’s a few reasons.

1. I don’t care what color you are, you do not get to decide what race or regional origin of another person. If a person tells you that they are Asian, then she is Asian. She is not African just because you think she looks African, ESPECIALLY ...

I was browsing different websites today, as I typically do when I am bored, and I found a link to this little gem from a video game forum I frequent: One Regular, One Indian

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Women’s Pit hair is unnatural, eh Boost?

I’m sure quite a few people have seen this commercial, but I wanted to talk about it regardless:

This ad bugs me for a couple reasons.

1. Men’s armpit hair does not grow that long, why would a woman’s? It kind of reminds me of the movie Without a Paddle (specifically @ 1:20) and how women’s body hair, when we allow ourselves to have it, is greatly exaggerated in the media. Because we’re supposed to be hair free, otherwise we’re masculine. *rolls eyes*

2. According to Boost mobile, women having arm pit hair is unnatural. Um, what? Actually, altering your body from it’s natural state makes it unnatural, so technically, when women shave off body hair, THAT is unnatural. Not that that’s ...

I’m sure quite a few people have seen this commercial, but I wanted to talk about it regardless:

This ad bugs me for a couple reasons.

1. Men’s armpit hair does not grow that long, why would a woman’s? ...

Thoughts on the Issue of Gay Marriage

During dinner tonight, my boyfriend and I were talking about California passing Prop 8. I’m a staunch liberal, and bisexual. He’s a moderate and was raised in a very strictly religious and conservative family. His family is Independent Baptist and he went to a bible college for two years before being caught making out with his girlfriend, which he was expelled for.

Anyways, we were talking about the whole issue of gay marriage. From his experience with the Christian community, he believes that the reason why we have such a problem getting the majority of the population to go along with gay marriage is because of the word marriage. To many Christians, marriage is a religious institution that should only be ...

During dinner tonight, my boyfriend and I were talking about California passing Prop 8. I’m a staunch liberal, and bisexual. He’s a moderate and was raised in a very strictly religious and conservative family. His family is ...

Family Problems, and I need advice.

Okay, so both me and my step-sister (who is like a true sister to me and will be henceforth referred to as my sister) are both bisexual. I came out to my mom two years ago to some mixed feelings. I am adopted, and my mother loves me very much but she’s also extremely homophobic. She was born in 1953 and was raised in a Protestant family. She used the typical shoddy arguments of: 1. You just haven’t met the right man yet. 2. Why don’t you just marry Steve (my male best friend)? 3. But I want grandchildren!

We eventually got past that when my then homosexual relationship ended. I’m assuming my mother just figured I’d gotten through that phase, ...

Okay, so both me and my step-sister (who is like a true sister to me and will be henceforth referred to as my sister) are both bisexual. I came out to my mom two years ago to ...