Reading Classes: On Culture and Classism in America

[Excerpt] So I said to him, \u27What part of Fridley are you from? I mean where in Anoka did you grow up?\u27 My eyes popped wide in shock. Those were the northwest suburbs of the Twin Cities we had just driven through, where much of my extended family still lived, including the uncles, aunties, and cousins that I felt so grateful for that difficult day. Fridley is where Dave Jensen lived, Uncle Gene\u27s son, whose excellent band played at our wedding dance. Uncle Donnie and Auntie Carol and my deceased godmother, Mary Jensen Larson, lived in Anoka. The guy behind me went on, What trailer park in Spring hake Park are you from? What part of Columbia Heights Yeah, another guy joined him as our waitress came, What rock in New Brightondid you crawl out from under? New Brighton was my childhood mailing address. I skated at the roller rink in Spring Lake Park; I got my first job there in a bakery at fourteen. I sputtered through my order while these two guys behind me riffed on, besting each other\u27s epithets, to a table of people laughing. Every one of their epithets were the places where my father and much of his family (and, later, my cousins and their families) had proudly bought homes and farms and settled down with skilled working class jobs. The shock and irony of hearing their blatant classism when I had just been out there left me speechless. Suddenly my head was spinning with rage. It made me crazy to juxtapose the tenderness and triumph of the day—and my own complicated cultural history—with this casual and complete contempt for the places my family called home

The Case Study a Technique for the Diagnosis of Reading Disability

The purpose for conducting this study was to present the case study method in diagnosing reading disability and on the basis of this diagnosis to prescribe and implement a corrective program. The program and results were then reported to show the functioning of this technique

An NMR analysis of the hydrolysis of alpha-bromopropionic acid

The kinetics of hydrolysis of ∝-bromopropionic acid were investigated at 80° and a constant pH of 3.3. An average first order rate constant of 4.74x10-3 min-1 was determined. This hydrolysis reaction has been studied by several workers. It is unique in that the reaction proceeds through inversion reactions, the first involving the carboxylate ion. This paper covers the first study where the pH of the system was maintained constant. The design if an inexpensive pH-stat for this purpose is given. The experiment and/ or data lend themselves useful for treatment in physical chemistry where the students must gather data in a bromopropinoic acid is used and the reaction is followed using NMR spectroscopy

Our Transition Mission: Reaching Out to the High School Community

For the past three years, librarians at Kent State University have worked with Ohio library media specialists and teachers to better understand how information literacy is incorporated into the K-12 curriculum. The outreach was undertaken with two objectives: 1) to more effectively work with high school students, and 2) to increase communication with high school educators so they can better prepare their students for college research. The presenters believe that collaborative initiatives launched by our Institute for Library Information Literacy Education (ILILE) and through a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant can serve as both models and resources for the 12-13 transitioning programming efforts of others. One of the projects is a student-focused web site, Transitioning to College: Helping You Succeed, featuring streaming videos, teaching tools, and a glossary of academic terms. ILILE also supported the construction of an instructional classroom designed for visits by high school students who get their feet wet through exposure to an academic library. This classroom serves as the centerpiece of Informed Transitions, Kent State University\u27s outreach program to local high schools. TRAILS, a real-time web-based resource for assessing information literacy skills of high school students has also been developed and is currently being piloted. In addition to highlighting these initiatives, this session will engage participants in discussion about their own experiences with high school to college transitions, and will provide them with a checklist of ideas that can be used to lay the foundation for conversations with the K-12 community in their states

The effects of calcineurin inhibitors on epithelial electrolyte transport

Calcineurin inhibitor (CNI)-induced hypertension is common after renal transplantation, rendering patients susceptible to cardiovascular and kidney disease, graft failure and death. CNI-induced hypertension occurs as a result of enhanced sodium retention by activation, via phosphorylation, of the renal thiazide-sensitive NaCl cotransporter, NCC (SLC12A3). CNI-treated renal transplant patients also have increased NCC abundance in isolated urinary exosomes. The studies described in this thesis were designed to investigate the effects of CNI treatment on mouse renal and intestinal sodium transport proteins, to determine whether alterations in proteins other than NCC may also contribute towards sodium retention. These changes were compared with those in an established mouse model of metabolic syndrome, comprising hypertension, insulin resistance, obesity and hypercholesterolemia which are also associated with CNI use. The abundance of NCC and phospho-NCC was also investigated in urinary exosomes from patients taking CNIs or with Gitelman syndrome. There was a higher abundance of NCC and pNCC in urinary exosomes from CNI-treated renal transplant patients compared with patients with Gitelman syndrome. Both CNI-treated and metabolic syndrome rodent models displayed a significant increase in pNCC. No differences were observed for intestinal transport proteins with CNI-treatment, however, a lower abundance of PiT1 and SGLT1 in the small intestine was observed with high-fat feeding. Renal NHE3 and ENaC were down-regulated in CNI-treated mice, a response that could be compensatory to the upregulation of pNCC in the DCT. These data provide evidence that CNIs influence a number of renal sodium transport proteins that may contribute towards the development of hypertension following transplantation. These studies suggest an important role for calcineurin in the regulation of blood pressure and sodium transport in the kidney, and its possible involvement in the pathogenesis of hypertension and electrolyte disorders