Word: homework
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commend you for your presentation of the "Nature vs. Nurture" debate. Few people take the time to do their homework and present the results in an organized manner. But it is not without the customary journalistic bias that you write...
...Brooklyn. They still feel estranged. Only one American girl in Ditmas Junior High School has tried to make friends with So Huong, for example. Says the ninth-grader: "I don't know how to talk to anyone yet, and I don't know how to do my homework." After school or work, the whole family spends long hours poring over their copy of Access to English as a Second Language...
Dear Ann Landers: I am 15 years old and my biggest problem is my mother. All she does is nag, nag, nag. From morning till night. It is, turn off the TV. Do your homework. Wash your neck. Stand up straight. Go clean up your room. How can I get her off my case? Pick, Pick, Pick
Dear Picky: Turn off the TV. Do your homework. Wash your neck. Stand up straight. Go clean up your room...
...added attraction there is homework every night. Says De Wesse: "My children didn't have that when they went to public school." At Palisades Village School, students write work contracts with their teachers. Parents have much greater control over what is learned and taught. Old-fashioned or newfashioned, neighborhood schools offer the possibility of increased parental involvement. "Like many other mothers, I work," Carol Ducy explained. "It would be impractical to drive many miles across town to the school where my child has been bused." Even though places like Palisades Village tend to drain bright students from the public...