Word: homework
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...adult dimensions is the prefrontal cortex, home of the so-called executive functions - planning, setting priorities, organizing thoughts, suppressing impulses, weighing the consequences of one's actions. In other words, the final part of the brain to grow up is the part capable of deciding, I'll finish my homework and take out the garbage, and then I'll IM my friends about seeing a movie...
...Wait, what is Lehane's name doing on a 700-page epic about union politics, a flu epidemic, immigration, baseball, an Irish cop and a black fugitive in Boston in 1919? He's gone big and literary on us, and the results are part home run and part homework. But he hasn't forgotten where he came from: there's great pulp storytelling in here...
...systems in the short term. In the long term, however, rewarding an increase in performance with pay may not be sustainable. Rather, more fundamental changes must be made, such as raising teachers’ salaries. For the amount of time they spend in the classroom, creating lesson plans, grading homework, and working to make sure their students succeed, teachers are grossly underpaid and underappreciated. An increase in salary would not only make the field more compelling for qualified college graduates but would also help to mitigate attrition rates due to teacher burn-out. More resources for schools—which...
...classic vignette from Annie Hall, Woody Allen recalls a farcical episode from his childhood where his mother drags him in to see a psychiatrist, convinced that her son is suffering from depression because he’s stopped doing his homework. A nebbishy but precocious nine year-old, his face dwarfed by the trademark horn-rimmed glasses, kid Woody is a charming avatar of his neurotic, anhedonic adult persona. “The universe is everything,” he says by means of justification. “And if it’s expanding, someday it will break apart?...
...clear sense that Cindy's chief influence is not with his campaign but with their kids. During an hour-long chat, the cell phone that is her lifeline never leaves her side. She learned to check homework, approve clothing choices and practically administer Band-Aids by cell phone during the 2000 campaign. She has three BlackBerrys and is the family techie, programming the computers and solving problems. Bridget is now 17; Cindy is on the phone with her constantly, as well as with eldest daughter Meghan and sons Jimmy, a Marine who returned from deployment in Iraq in February...