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...Just how useful is homework, anyway? No question, homework is valuable. It has a measurable impact on academic achievement, teaches responsibility and organizational skills, fosters study habits and shows kids that learning takes place outside the classroom. That value increases with age, so the amount of homework should increase as well. The rule of thumb: 10 min. per night per grade level...
...them. And they have sought ways to protect their students and staff members from both intruders and disgruntled insiders. Happily, these precautions have generally had to cope with little more than run-of-the-mill vandalism - and they have helped reduce it. England has embraced cctv in the classroom perhaps more than any other country. Its 21,000 schools now have thousands of the cameras, many of them purchased with $216 million in government funds made available after the Dunblane massacre. When John Floyd closes the Portchester School for the night or the weekend, he diverts the monitoring...
...seats to chant in unison: "We welcome our headmistress." Jane Kansiime, who runs the Kamwokya primary school in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, silently reviews the students, who stand politely at attention, five to a bench. Most wear the navy-and-turquoise school uniform, but other colors speckle the crowded classroom: a yellow shirt, a red dress, a white blouse. "We are not rigid here, as long as a child can come," says Kansiime, 40. "It's not the clothes that make the child learn." Six years ago, before Uganda became the first country to have its debt burden eased under...
...teachers to their posts had left a third of the country's 150,000 teachers not assigned to schools. The company that holds the lucrative computer contract, Compta, said it "rejects all responsibility" for the crisis - a lesson in corporate accountability kids can learn without even stepping in the classroom...
...supervisor of gifted education for the Garden Grove Unified School District, south of Los Angeles, says her school system discourages grade skipping and instead approaches the challenge of exceptional children with this question: "How is it [that] we can meet the needs of gifted kids in a regular classroom without saying, 'Gee, you're 5, but you can read at a seventh-grade level, [so] let's put you up to at least sixth grade'? It doesn't make sense at a social or emotional level," says Pe?...