Word: homework
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Teaching Machines. Encyclopedia publishers have also benefited from the boom. The swing away from progressive educational theory and the return to the fundamentals of the three Rs is sending more children, at a younger age, home with homework. This plus overcrowded school libraries has handicapped the student without a standard reference shelf in his home. Sales of Grolier's encyclopedias (e.g., Book of Knowledge, Americana) have risen from $25 million in 1950 to an estimated $77 million this year...
Every morning, the big yellow school bus picks up Susanne Slay, 8, at her home in suburban Crestwood near St. Louis. The bright second-grader studies hard, plays hard, tackles one hour of homework each night. Why is this surprising? The daughter of a sales engineer, Susanne is a victim of cerebral palsy, wears heavy braces on both legs...
...tell the people of things to come-and things not to come." Probable translation: barred by law from succeeding himself this time, Ole Earl expects to run for Governor again in 1964. Meanwhile, with his estranged wife Blanche holed up in Baton Rouge, Long was doing his homework in a New Orleans nightspot, where works his favorite houri, Stripper Blaze Starr...
Kidnapped (Walt Disney; Buena Vista). Robert Louis Stevenson's casual classic was written, he confessed, with "no more desperate purpose than to steal some young gentleman's attention from his Ovid." Walt Disney's movie version may persuade the young gentlemen that Latin homework is a comparative pleasure...
...Homework. In Baghdad, Author Salih Salman complained to police that his house had been ransacked while he attended a debate about his latest work...