Word: homework
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...large families are great fans of the service. Traci Laffer of Los Angeles, the wife of supply-side Economist Arthur Laffer, figures that she has used Federal Express 20 times in the past year. Shipments to her traveling husband or the Laffer children away at school have included cufflinks, homework, a party dress and a computer part. Says she: "My husband thinks I'm crazy, but when you need something quickly it's the only way to get it there...
...through the moviegoer's brain-and ends with the cry "For he is the Kwisatz Haderach!" So inward and remote does the movie seem, it might have arrived in a time capsule from one of the four warring planets. Most sci-fi movies offer escape, a holiday from homework, but Dune is as difficult as a final exam. You have to cram...
...himself: "Her style is a little bit rough on the edges." But others see nothing wrong with her flair for the dramatic. Noting that Allred is careful to keep her theatrics out sides of court, Justice Joan Dempsey Klein of the California Court of Appeal says, "She does her homework; her success rate is good. She is both style and substance. So long as there is not an equal rights amen ment, there will be lots of work for Gloria Allred...
...deplore the methods currently espoused by some preschool educators [EDUCATION, Oct. 8]. Kindergarten should be a place for whetting the appetite to learn, not a place for homework and tests...
Kindergarten used to be a playground. Then it became a training ground. Now it may become a battleground. In Los Angeles, kindergarten teachers are assigning homework. In Minneapolis, "competency tests" help decide which tots advance to the first grade. A full day of classes has become the rule for all New York City kindergartens. But in neighboring Connecticut, an outcry helped to defeat statewide full-day legislation, and more protests are being heard across the country as pressure grows for tougher early schooling...