2nd Set of Presentations

I thought Jess raised a good question with whether your housing situation impacts your grades. But I think that anytime you give someone a chance to pick between a coed or single sex dorm most people would choose the coed dorm even with statistics showing that single sex dorms improve your gpa.
As far Greg's point about Americans needing more geography taught in K-12, I think he wasn't looking on a big enough scale. I think whether or not people are taught geography depends on state and school district curriculum. I know that everyone in my school district had to take Geography during freshman year of high school and that we had to know locations of countries during world history. However if some school districts don't require a geography class and studies show that this adversely effects our education then it should be mandated that everyone must take at least one years worth of geography in high school.
Finally to go with Lisa's topic of Inclusion, I had this program at my high school and it was never a problem. The special needs student was the only one the second teacher ever taught and that was more in the role of a tutor. There was never a clash of teachers over how the class should be taught and it seemed as if the special needs students benefited from the extra assistance.