Word: homework
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teacher tell the student after the third lesson has come and gone and he is still reading at 400 words a minute? "You have to believe deep down that you're going to get it. You must have faith that sometime this week you will be doing your homework and suddenly it will happen. You must be faithful to the method." This is usually the standard line used by the Reading Dynamics teachers. The "faith" is now "being faithful;" it is used as a club to prevent people from dropping the course...
...this complicated superstructure would be necessary. It is true, as the previous two articles showed, that it is possible for a person to learn dynamic reading with the Wood method. But it is also true that the vast majority of students never do learn, even if they do their homework every night and believe and believe and believe. Nobody who is associated with Reading Dynamics would ever come out and admit this because it makes ridiculous the fact that less than two percent of the students get their money back after the course...
...analysis of a symphony. The boys were able to discuss academic and personal problems with their teachers. When one flunked French, Challenge found him a tutor. However, the program suffered from infrequent meetings and a shot-gun approach to subject matter. The boys had a fairly heavy load of homework; many held part-time jobs; and several were on sports teams. Although Challenge would like to have classes for boys all the way through 12th grade, high school students, even more than the ninth graders, are likely not to have time to participate...
...most capable and assertive Negro in Congress, now that Powell is out of power. A 37-year-old veteran of the Korean War and former labor and civil rights lawyer, Conyers not only impresses his colleagues with an agile intellect and a proclivity to do his homework. His speeches are laden with scholarly quotes -- particularly about American Negro history. And unlike the other Negroes in Congress, Conyers has taken pains to search out opinions from Negroes across the nation. Despite his good attendance record, much of his time these days is spent speaking to liberal adult and college groups...
Even the l.V.S. girls are busier with handiwork than homework. Blonde, leggy Sondra Williams, 27, a Texas Tech graduate who was an NBC secretary and served two years in the Philippines with the Peace Corps before joining l.V.S., teaches sewing and cooking at Ban Me Thuot, 160 miles northeast of Saigon, once made a crash landing in a Communist-held paddyfield when the helicopter in which she was bumming a lift lost power. "I don't think any of us over here have our head in the clouds," she says. "Maybe before we came...