Summer 2007 College Prep

Good morning and welcome to Boricua College!

Today we will learn about

• computer etiquette in the computer lab
• evaluating online fractions tutorials
• taking a GED standardized test
  

Computer Lab rules

Like most other places, please leave the room as you found it. That means

1. No disruptive behavior, such as cell phone conversations, loud mp3 music, eating/drinking in the lab.
   
2. Also, please turn off the computer when you are done, as this will make sure the disk drives don't run all night.
3. SAVE TREES! Don't print out a 10 blogspace when you're only interested in a paragraph. Printing out emails is not acceptable either. Only print out an article that is less than five pages when absolutely necessary.

Online Math Websites

One of the most important parts of this College Prep class is to ensure you have the math skills necessary to enter the Associates or Bachelor's program here at Boricua. What follows are a few Web links that list hundreds of interactive math lessons online. Each student will:

1. Peruse each list, and evaluate several addition and subtraction of fractions websites.
2. Once you have found two or three websites that you liked using, as well as learning something more about fractions, post a comment to this blog with your name, the name of the website, the URL, and 1-2 paragraphs explaining why you liked and learned from those specific websites.
3. Here are the websites:
   

Dmoz
Homeschool Math
Google
DistanceEd


The MAPS Exam

You will be taking a 35 question evaluation, to help the instructor learn what math topics to focus on for this class. You will not be graded, this evaluation is simply to identify the skills most students need to brush up on.

New York Penal Law -- Justification


62See e.g., Zelman, 536 U.S. at 639 (vouchers); Mitchell, 530 U.S. at 793
(educational materials); Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills Sch. Dist., 509 U.S.
1 (1993)(interpreters); Bowen v. Kendrick, 487 U.S. 589 (1988)
(counseling); Witters v. Washington D ept. of Servs. for the Blind, 474 U.S.
481 (1986)(scholarship); Mueller v. Allen, 463 U.S. 388 (1983)(tax
deduction for tuition); Roemer v. Board of Pub. Works of Md., 426 U.S.
736 (1976)(grants to private colleges); Hunt v. McNair, 413 U.S. 734
(1973)(revenue bonds for college facilities); Tilton v. Richardson, 403
U.S. 672 (1971)(grants for college facilities); Board of Educ. v. Allen, 392
U.S. 236 (1968)(loan of textbooks).


57County of Allegheny v. ACLU, 492 U.S. 573, 630 (1989)(O’Connor,
J., concurring)(quoting Walz v. Tax Comm’n, 397 U.S. 664, 678 (1970));
Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, 536 U.S. 639, 662 n.7 (“prosecuting a
lawsuit” cannot serve to create “divisiveness”)(quoting Aguilar v. Felton,
473 U.S. 402, 229 (1985)(O’Connor, J., dissenting)).
58Newdow, 124 S. Ct. at 2320 (Rehnquist, C.J., concurring); Good News
Club v. Milford Cent. Sch. D ist., 533 U.S. 98, 119 (2001)(refusing to
employ “a modified heckler’s veto”); McGowan v. Maryland, 366 U.S.
420, 435 (1961)(“litigation over Sunday closing laws is not novel. Scores
of cases may be found in state appellate courts.”); id. at 527-36
(Frankfurter, J., concurring)(listing cases).


56See also Elk Grove Unified Sch. Dist. v. Newdow, 124 S. Ct. 2301,
2321 (2004)(O’Connor, J., concurring); Rosenberger v. Rector and
Visitors of the Univ. of Virginia, 515 U.S. 819, 852 (1995)(O’Connor, J.,
concurring); Mitchell v. Helms, 530 U.S. 793, 885 (2000)(Souter, J.,
dissenting)(citing Grumet, 512 U.S. at 751 ); Lynch v. Donnelly, 465 U.S.
668, 679 (1984)(no “single test or criterion”)(citing cases).


Board of Educ. of Kiryas Joel Village Sch. Dist. v. Grumet, 512 U.S. 687,
751 (1994)(Scalia, J., dissenting)(“meaningless”); Lamb’s Chapel v.
Center Moriches Union Free Sch. Dist., 508 U.S. 384, 398 (Scalia, J.,
concurring)(“stalks our Establishment Clause jurisprudence”); Wallace v.
Jaffree, 472 U.S. 38, 67 (1985)(O’Connor, J., concurring)(“should be
reexamined and refined”); Id. at 91 (White, J., dissenting); Id. at 110-11
(Rehnquist, J., dissenting)(Lemon has spawned “unworkable plurality
opinions,” “consistent unpredictability” and “unprincipled results”);
Committee for Public Educ. & Religious Liberty v. Regan, 444 U.S. 646,
671 (Stevens, J., dissenting)(requires “sisyphean task” to apply the test).