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...nursery schools. Preschoolers who would have spent their time learning simply to play and share are being bombarded with flash cards, educational CD-ROMS and other gadgets designed to teach reading, writing and even second languages. Grade-schoolers are spending longer hours at school, still longer ones sweating over homework and filling what time they have left with a buffet line of outside activities that may or may not build character but definitely build resumes. Kids who once had childhoods now have curriculums; kids who ought to move with the lunatic energy of youth now move with the high purpose...
...family breakfast and a lazy morning and an afternoon of outside play or a museum trip or whatever else strikes the family's fancy. Monday, they all know, will come soon enough, and the girls will be going back to the high-stakes race of schoolwork and homework and ballet or chess or soccer practice. But until then, they are going to have a chance to breathe. "My children," Ben-Ari insists, "will have all the time they need simply to hang out and be children...
...going to be doing a lot of homework," she said...
...reaction to the guide seems favorable among head tutors and concerned administrators, and the Instructional Computing Group is considering the creation of a toolkit to help departments participate. Gusmorino has clearly done his homework on this issue, and we are glad that this project seems close to realization...
...nursery schools. Preschoolers who would have spent their time learning simply to play and share are being bombarded with flash cards, educational CD-ROMs and other gadgets designed to teach reading, writing and even second languages. Grade-schoolers are spending longer hours at school, still longer ones sweating over homework and filling what time they have left with a buffet line of outside activities that may or may not build character but definitely build r?sum?s. Kids who once had childhoods now have curriculums; kids who ought to move with the lunatic energy of youth now move with the high purpose...