Word: homework
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...relative newcomers to their communities, black families tend to lack access to the informal networks white parents use to trade intelligence about the best teachers, classes and strategies for guaranteeing success. As a remedy, he suggests having teachers establish a good rapport with students early on and create homework assignments that show how academic subjects connect to real life. Black parents, he says, should become more proactive and vigilant...
...whites there weren't as homogeneous as they appeared at first glance. For starters, blacks were less affluent. Only 21% of blacks were upper middle class or higher, whereas 73% of whites were. Academically, there were few differences between the races in terms of time kids spent on homework, their desire to do well, their interest in their studies or their perceptions of how their peers valued achievement. Yet black students completed less of their assignments than did their white classmates...
...napping on the black-metal futon in my harshly lit common room. My Arabic homework is indecipherable, and I dropped it on the floor as my consciousness gave up the ghost a few minutes ago. A puddle of drool is diffusing outward from my semi-open maw at a rate proportional to its density. Or something...
...Richard Durbin, the senior Senator from Illinois, counsels Obama to follow the model of Hillary Clinton. As a national figure entering the Senate with more buzz than clout, Clinton did her homework, kept her head down and stayed in tireless contact with her New York constituents. Gradually, her political capital rose. Obama says he plans to ask for her advice. Depending on how the conversation goes, maybe they could wager on the chances of them ever running together for the White House. --With reporting by David E. Thigpen/Chicago and Jeannie McCabe/Honolulu
...this school, sleep is among the lowest priorities on most every student’s list. Extracurriculars, socializing, homework, watching the election results and the Red Sox, Facebook-stalking, checking email—among other things—all come before sleeping. When we hear that someone is getting a lot of sleep, we automatically assume that the person has mono (or some other disease that causes a person to sleep more than five hours a night), is a loser, is incredible at managing time, or just not taking on enough. Five to six hours of sleep is the norm...