Notes
1. Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools: School, District, and Learning Community Profiles, 2008. http://apps.cms.k12.nc.us/departments/instrAccountability/schlProfile05/profiles.asp (accessed July 11, 2009).
2. Ibid.
3. English Language Arts: An Overview, Grade 5. (Public Schools of North Carolina: State Board of Education, Department of Public Instruction, 2008) http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/curriculum/languagearts/elementary/elagrade5 (accessed July 11, 2009).
4. National Standards: Grade 6. (Public Schools of North Carolina: State Board of Education, Department of Public Instruction, 2008) http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/docs/curriculum/languagearts/middlegrades/grade6overview.pdf (accessed July 11, 2009).
5. Intellectual Development. (MassGeneral Hospital for Children, 2009) http://www.massgeneral.org/children/adolescenthealth/articles/aa_intellectual_development.aspx (accessed July 11, 2009).
6. Oscar Lewis, Five Familes: Mexican Case Studies in the Culture of Poverty, 1.
7. Dan Smith, The Penguin State of the World Atlas: Eighth Edition, New York, 2008, 29.
8. Lewis, Five Familes: Mexican Case Studies in the Culture of Poverty, 13.
9. Ann Clutter, Ruben Nieto. "Understanding the Hispanic Culture," (Ohio State University Fact Sheet, Family and Consumer Sciences) http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg—fact/5000/5237.html (accessed July 12, 2009).
10. Smith, The Penguin State of the World Atlas, 20—21, 88.
11. Clutter, Nieto, "Understanding the Hispanic Culture," http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg—fact/5000/5237.html (accessed July 12, 2009).
12. Smith, The Penguin State of the World Atlas, 20—21, 27, 97.
13. Ibid, 29, 49.
14. Mary Ali, Anjum Ali. "Women's Liberation through Islam," (The Institute of Islamic Information and Education) http://www.jannah.org/sisters/womlib.html (accessed July 12, 2009).
15. "Afghanistan: Women Still under Threat," (Human Rights Watch, 2002) http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2002/05/08/afghanistan—women—still—under—threat (accessed July 12, 2009).09).
16. Maria Mussler, "Doing Business in the Middle East and North Africa," (Export America, December 2002) http://www.export.gov/middleeast/Doing%20Business%20in%20the%20Middle%20East.pdf (accessed on July 12, 2009).
17. Smith, The Penguin State of the World Atlas, 38.
18. Ibid, 9.
19. Robert Rector, "How Poor are America's Poor? Examining the ‘Plague' of Poverty in America," (The Heritage Foundation, 2007) http://www.heritage.org/Research/Welfare/bg2064.cfm (accessed July 12, 2009).
20. "What does the Lexile Measure Mean?" (The Lexile Framework for Reading) http://www.lexile.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?view=ed&tabindex=1&tabid=49&tabpageid=545 (accessed July 11, 2009).
21. "Lexile Grade Conversion Chart," (Lexile Framework) http://www.hsdist88.dupage.k12.il.us/aths/resources/AT%20MCweb02/TEAMS/ELLResources/LexileConversionChart.pdf (accessed July 11, 2009).
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