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Word: homework (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...collect some baptismal forms. "I told him his behavior was not right," she said. "No, but it is nice," the vicar replied. Also accusing Thomas were two girls aged 13 and 14, who said that the vicar hugged and kissed them when they asked for help with Sunday school homework...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Unfrocking | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

...sailors think. ("Hardware" courses come later at land-based nuclear plants.) The curriculum is a fat-free diet of pure math, physics, chemistry, electronics, engineering and health physics (to guard against radiation) that goes on for seven 50-minute periods a day, plus an average of four hours of homework done in a tiny, distraction-free cell. Teachers are on duty for help around the clock, and Rickover himself often conducts a final oral exam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Able-Minded Seamen | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

Flickering Flare. It began again one evening last week on the New Haven Railroad's 5:07, which left Manhattan's Grand Central Station and headed out for suburban Westchester and Connecticut. The commuters had settled down with their newspapers, homework, bridge games and liquid nourishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Great Train Rack | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...students completed in two weeks a highly abstract algebra course that used to take more than two months. A programed course in logic at Hamilton College cut class time by one-third. At Columbia University, one student wrote a perfect.final exam after doing one term's math homework in four hours and 20 minutes. In Roanoke, Va., last year, 34 eighth-graders finished a one-year algebra course in six months, working 50 minutes a day without homework; 41% of them tested at ninth-grade level or better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Programed Learning | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...shown, tends to become disillusioned under the trying and often disillusioning conditions of prison teaching. For example, although a class may average ten pupils, some days only one or two will show up, and in no case is student interest sufficient to enable the teacher to make regular homework assignments. The difficulties of maintaining a course's continuity without assigned reading are obvious...

Author: By Frederic L. Bullard jr., | Title: PBH Prison Instruction Program: Education As Attempt To Curtail Further Crimes By Convicted Men | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

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