Presentations: Day 4

Well I thought today's presentations were particularly interesting. Lindsay's presentation on racial gaps was really informative. I'm sure a lot of people in class didn't know what the SATs and/or the ACTs tested for because I was surely not aware either. It really showed how unfortunate it is that there are gaps in testing and upper level education when the people that on average do better on these tests don't even know what they are measuring. As for Brittany's presentation, I think it's really awesome that disabled kids get a chance to interact with the world in different ways, even if it is with animals and not particularly people. I was really interested in the information she gave about how the kids do better with different kinds of therapy. It was enlightening. As for Jessica's presentation, I also thought it was really interesting. I'm also doing my paper about deaf individuals, although our focuses are different from one another. I really don't have as much knowledge as she does on deaf culture, I'm sure of that, but I'm looking forward to seeing what the class says about our different pieces of information that we've gathered as well as our use of the information.