Word: homework
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Connecticut as a whole. Among its recommendations: a string of community colleges, a system of state scholarships, reorganization of school districts to streamline administration. The commission also suggested higher salaries for teachers, a state TV station strictly for education, and a re-examination of "the whole question of homework...
...Homework...
...have just run across your Dec. 11 story on James McGill and his experiment with high-school homework...
...that I can look back upon [my own] ate homework hours, without prejudice or bias, I realize that too often the cause was a disinclination to tackle a disagreeable task...
...homework group had the edge in economics, but the non-homework group (possibly less bleary-eyed) scored slightly better in comprehensive tests of "social-studies abilities." In American history the two groups were even. In all tests, score differences were so small that McGill could only draw one conclusion: in the social sciences, at least, high-school homework neither helps nor hinders very much, merely takes up time. McGill's advice to his colleagues on homework: forget...