School Reform

Clemmitt, Marcia. "School Reform: Should evaluations of teachers rest on students' test scores?" CQ Researcher April 29, 2011. With international tests showing that the United States no longer leads in school achievement, a bipartisan coalition of reformers is advocating the creation of more charter schools and a system of basing pay and firing decisions for teachers on students' standardized test scores. Conservatives have long recommended such businesslike approaches for schools, and Republican lawmakers and politicians are pushing for laws to weaken unions' ability to defend teachers against charges of incompetency. Teachers' unions remain opposed to market-oriented reforms, but the philosophy has new adherents among education-reform groups and centrist Democrats such as President Obama, whose administration is providing funding to states to develop data-driven teacher assessments. Meanwhile, some education scholars point out that poorly performing students are concentrated in low-income districts, where funding shortfalls, bad teaching conditions and poverty make educating students more difficult. From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

Clemmitt, Marcia. "Fixing Urban Schools: Has No Child Left Behind helped minority students?" CQ Researcher 17.16 (2007): 361-384.

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Cuban, Larry, and Michael D. Usdan. Powerful Reforms With Shallow Roots: Improving America's Urban Schools. New York : Teachers College Press, 2003.

McAdams, Donald R. Fighting to save our urban schools-- and winning! lessons from Houston. New York : Teachers College Press, 2000.

Freedman, Sarah Warshauer. Inside city schools investigating literacy in multicultural classrooms. New York : Teachers College Press, 1999.

Medal of Honor & U.S. Military

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"Notable African Americans in the Military (sidebar)." Issues & Controversies in American History. Facts On File News Services, 26 Feb. 2008. Web. 23 Apr. 2010. .


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U.S. ARMY CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY: Medal of Honor Citations

United States. Air Force. "Medal of Honor: U.S. Air Force Recipients."

http://www.army.mil/medalofhonor/
The United States Army Medal of Honor

United States. Marine Corps. History Division. "Marine Corps Medal of Honor."

United States. Navy. "Medal of Honor, USN Recipients."

United States. Dept. of Defense. Medal of Honor: Heroes of Iraq and Afghanistan.

http://www.homeofheroes.com/photos/index_2.html
Medal of Honor Photo Albums (Use the menu on the left to navigate.)
"Of the 961 men who have received Medals of Honor since the beginning of World War I, we now have photos of all but 2 of these heroes..."

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/medalofh.htm
Medal of Honor Recipients Buried In Arlington National Cemetery (Some photos)

Organ Donations

Mantel, Barbara. "Organ donations: can the growing demand for organs be met?" CQ Researcher 15 Apr. 2011: 337-360.  More than 110,000 Americans are on organ-transplant waiting lists, and demand for kidneys, lungs, hearts and other donated organs far exceeds the supply. Eighty percent of those waiting for organs need kidneys, in part because of rising incidences of obesity, hypertension and diabetes. States have made it easier for people to register as donors, either online or when obtaining or renewing a driver's license. Also, hospitals have been working to increase the number of families that allow a loved one's organs to be donated at death. But some transplant advocates are proposing more controversial measures, such as rewarding donors with financial compensation. Advances in bioengineering may eventually shrink the organ gap, allowing surgeons to transplant organs engineered from a patient's own stem cells. But for complex organs such as lungs and kidneys, that goal is probably decades away.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

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First Crusade

Paine, Mike. "The First And Second Crusades." Crusades. Harpenden, GBR: Pocket Essentials, 2001. Ebrary. Web

Williams, Paul L. "The First Crusade." Complete Idiot's Guide to the Crusades. Indianapolis, IN: Alpha, 2002. Ebrary. Web.

Erdmann, Carl. "BYZANTIUM AND JERUSALEM: THE MOTIVE AND THE OBJECTIVE OF THE FIRST CRUSADE." p.355-371. The origin of the idea of crusade. Princeton UP, 1977. ACLS Humanities E-Book Collection. Web.

Morrisson, Cécile. "Crusades." Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages. Ed. André Vauchez. 2001. Osford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. Web.

"The First Crusade" - Internet Medieval Sourcebook. Ed. Paul Halsall. includes Urban II: Speech at Clermont: Five Versions. Web.

Knox, Ellis L. "The First Crusade." 1999. The ORB: On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies. Web. "The ORB is an academic site, written and maintained by medieval scholars for the benefit of their fellow instructors and serious students. All articles have been judged by at least two peer reviewers. Authors are held to high standards of accuracy, currency, and relevance to the field of medieval studies."

Identity Theft, Phishing and Consumer Scams

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Helft, Miguel. "Firms Warn of E-Mail Fraud After a Breach." New York Times 5 Apr. 2011, Late Ed. ProQuest. "While e-mail addresses may not seem particularly vulnerable, experts say that if criminals can associate addresses with names and a business like a bank, they can devise highly customized attacks to trick people into disclosing more confidential information, a technique known as 'spear phishing.'"

Cohn, Laura. "What to Toss, What to Keep." Kiplinger's Personal Finance; Feb2010, p69-70.
The article presents information on the amount of time financial documents must be kept before throwing them away.

Cohn, Laura. "What You Need to Know About Identity Theft." Kiplinger's Personal Finance; Jul2009, Vol. 63 Issue 7, p79-79, 1p.
This article offers information on identity (ID) theft and provides tips on preventing it.

Albanesius, Chloe. Consumers Haven't Learned Not to Divulge Private Info Online. PC Magazine; Jun2010, Vol. 29 Issue 6, p1-1, 1p.
The article presents the study from Consumer Reports regarding the behavior of consumer in divulging private information online in the U.S. The study reveals that 52 percent of adult Internet users still engage in risking personal information including date of birth, home addresses, and information about their children, despite warnings from privacy advocates.

Biggs, Ohn. "Stop Hack Attacks." Popular Mechanics Aug. 2010: 98-101. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. "The easiest and most common method for bad guys to get your data is currently the phishing attack, wherein hackers create a Web page that looks trustworthy but is actually a collection point for passwords and credit card information. Many scams involve e-mails about fake charges to your credit cards or online payment accounts."

Sarrel, Matthew D. Thwarting Identity Theft. PC Magazine; Nov2008, Vol. 27 Issue 12, p96-96, 1p

Kiviat, Barbara. "WHO'S GOT YOUR NUMBER?" Time; 7/17/2006, Vol. 168 Issue 3, p68.
The article discusses the risk of identity theft and recommends that individuals not give out their social security numbers.

CQ Researcher

Katel, Peter. "Identity Theft." CQ Researcher 10 June 2005: 517-40.

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United States. Federal Trade Commission. Fighting Back Against Identity Theft.
This website is a one-stop national resource to learn about the crime of identity theft. It provides detailed information to help you deter, detect, and defend against identity theft.

United States. Federal Trade Commission. "Phishing." OnGuardOnline.gov. Feb. 2008. Facts, advice, and how to report suspicious emails.

Anti-Phishing Working Group. "Consumer Advice: How to Avoid Phishing Scams."

Black Death

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Martin, Sean. Black Death. Pocket Essentials, 2001.

Scott, Susan and Christopher J. Duncan. "The Great Pestilence." Chapter 4 of Biology of Plagues : Evidence from Historical Populations. Cambridge University Press, 2001.

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"Bubonic plague." The Gale Encyclopedia of Science. Ed. K. Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner. 4th ed. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 2008. 678-680.

Vickery, R.C. "Bubonic Plague." Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia. Ed. Glenn D. Considine. 10th ed. Vol. 1. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Interscience, 2008. 821-822.