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Founder Thelma Farley taught in public schools for 20 years before becoming fed up with what she calls the "rigid, bureaucratic monolith" of public education. Kids need to learn continuously all year, she believes, and schools need to stop invading the little family time Americans have left. So in 1982 she started Beacon, which in 18 years has grown from seven students to 300 on two campuses, with a wait list. The 240-day elementary-school calendar is not as daunting as it seems. Families can take vacation time whenever they want (a carefully individualized curriculum makes this possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Schoolwork but No Homework | 7/31/2000 | See Source »

...aren't those kids better prepared for the discipline of high school and college? Farley says that's a myth. "Homework usually brings major family interference, there's downloading of book reports from the Internet, there's Daddy doing the science experiment. Who's getting discipline? I think it's the parents." It helps her case that Farley can point to Beacon's students' standardized-test scores, which rank among the best in the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Schoolwork but No Homework | 7/31/2000 | See Source »

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