It is well established that health status differs across racial subpopulations within the United States. Specifically, African Americans (black) live lives that are substantially shorter, on average, than those of their white neighbors. Moreover, blacks generally experience worse health outcomes...

This action research project investigates whether writing assignments are associated with improved student performance in terms of lower-order learning and higher-order learning as defined in Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives. The impact of explicitly structuring the learning...