Foster

=Do Research 4  Define For Yourself 4 Connect to "Ellen Foster" ! =
 * first, here are some dictionaries, to help you get started with a working definition. Becareful with homophones, "race" can mean running track! Compare the definitions in different dictionaries. Find the dictionaries under the Maroons sign in the library and look the words up there too!

Google Dictionary Merriam-Webster MSN Encarta

Race
PBS: Race: the power of an illusion Companion site to the California Newsreel documentary about "race in society, science, and history." Background documents cover topics such as genetics, evolution, slavery, 19th-century race science, immigration, and racial classification. The most helpful section is the one labeled "Background Readings"

Race: are we so different? Companion website to an exhibit that "brings together the everyday experience of living with race, its history as an idea, the role of science in that history, and the findings of contemporary science that are challenging its foundations. ...

What is Race? This site holds many interesting articles about the definition of race and its importance in American culture and particular racial communities. However, be careful of the "hits" at the bottom of the page. These links take you out of the authority of the University of Dayton where the site is authored.

Poverty
National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) This organization's purpose is to "identify and promote strategies that prevent child poverty in the United States and that improve the lives of low-income children and their families." The Web site has facts, statistics, reports, news, and analysis. Places to start are "Poverty 101" where you can find for example sterotypes about poverty or go to the "budget needs calculator" to calculate what it takes for a family to survive in a southern state today (like south carolina where Ellen might have been) compared to illinois. http://www.nccp.org/

National Poverty Center The National Poverty Center (NPC) conducts and promotes multidisciplinary, policy-relevant research on the causes and consequences of poverty. Included in this site are frequently asked questions that address questions of how many children are in poverty in the country and how poverty has changed over time. http://www.npc.umich.edu/poverty/

[|America's Forgotten Children: Child Poverty in Rural America] This is a PDF This report outlines the economic conditions contributing to child poverty in rural America. Included are specific examples of the stories of children and statistics to back there stories up. There is some reading involved with this site, but at least it is interesting reading. For starters, you could look at the "Did you know. . ." segments in red. http://www.savethechildren.org/publications/usa/voices.pdf

Family
The Factbook: Eye-opening Memos on Everythng Family The Factbook is "an organized collection of research on family" created as a website companion for Po Bronson's book, "Why Do I Love These People?" Find approximately one hundred well-documented short articles and memos about family. Play close attention to "Definitions of Family" under "Families as Social Institutions." http://www.pobronson.com/factbook/  "That's a Family": Some Statistics This resource is a video curriculum for kids, and they are trying to sell there video to people, but I you might find some useful statistics on their site.