Word: homework
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Telly has had the toughest time adjusting. Once a model preschooler, he has been acting up in kindergarten. One day he used scissors to carve a hole in his desk; another time he crumpled his homework into a ball and covered it with glue. "I don't know if he's being rebellious toward me because 'You let me be on the roof for five days,'" says Natrena, a single...
...days after the kids were enrolled in the suddenly overcrowded local school, they learned they would be bused to a different one 25 miles away, arriving late to that school and leaving early every day. Packed like crayfish on the road for an hour, they were loath to do homework...
...ASIA KEPKA FOR TIME SEPARATE PEACE: Clockwise from left, Jan, Micah, Yolanda, Taylor and Sonny Meehan-Hoo huddle over homework as Yolanda's mom rests...
...four T stops away, but it makes sense in some strange way. Boston’s colonial appeal takes a back seat to New York’s modern-day sophistication for the very reason that the fast paced life in the Big Apple mimics the constant onslaught of homework and extracurricular meetings. Nevertheless, too often, students descend on New York without considering the alternatives...
...Jeff Howard, a social psychologist and president of the Efficacy Institute, a Boston-area organization that works with teachers and parents in school districts around the country to help improve children's academic performance. Howard and other educators say it's important to expose kids to a world beyond homework and tests, through volunteer work, sports, hobbies and other extracurricular activities. "The crux of the issue is that many students experience education as irrelevant to their life goals and ambitions," says Michael Nakkula, a Harvard education professor who runs a Boston-area mentoring program called Project IF (Inventing the Future...