Our Project

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Today, our group the Johnson group, had to commute to the Tubman Quad building in order to have our group discussion. We sat down and organized our plans and thoughts. Even though the time was short we were able to get a lot done. The group decided to target different points and bring in different statistics on our project. In the beginning our questions were a little too broad and we needed to specify what it is we are saying. After constructively criticizing each other ideas, we thought that maybe we should target a certain group, African Americans. Some members in the group thought that we should implement the variable of the parents, whether one or both of them are bilingual, or speak another language than English in the household. I decided amongst the group that I will collect data on the children here in Washington DC. We decided to look at the African American children here in Washington DC who are in the public school systems. As a group we will ask certain questions to professors on the campus of Howard University and if I have time then I will venture out to other college campuses and talk to other professors. From our own perspectives African American children have a low percentage of being by lingual. I believe we should as a group compare the children with other ethnicity in the US and out side the US. We decided that we will gather the stats and email each other with this information. This will put us all on the same page allowing us to properly have synergy.