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...Mass. Hall hadn't done any homework," said the former Nieman fellow, who attributed the delay to the complaints from Giles's former employees. "They sat on the appointment and moved at the wrong pace...
...families over parental involvement in their children's education. While 92% of the parents said they are very interested in their kids' schoolwork, the number falls to 75% when kids were asked if this is true of their parents. Similarly, 77% of parents said they help the kids with homework to help them learn more, as opposed to just checking it over to make sure it is done, but only 60% of kids agreed with that. Teachers overwhelmingly said they wanted parents to be extremely involved in their kids' work, but only 3% of teachers said they believed parents really...
...rare undergraduate who truly cares about the powers that run this colossus of higher education. Stiff-necked bureaucratic types, after all, have little to say about whether you attend a keg party in Winthrop House or spend your Saturday nights doing homework...
...Tuesday is report-card day at Chicago's Harold Washington Elementary School, and Tracy Bates is already on edge. She earned A's and B's last semester in most subjects, including attendance and presentable uniforms. But she's been working to pull up the D she got in homework monitoring. Bates, you see, is a 39-year-old stay-at-home mom whose daughter is a fifth-grader at Harold Washington...
...seeing their parents scrutinized is incentive enough for some students to improve. Shanece Bates, 10, says of her mom, "I'm glad she got some bad grades too and really knew how I was doing. Now we're back on track." And if mom can just bring up that homework grade, she has a shot at making the parent honor roll...