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...afford. At Boston High School, many kids receive class credit for paid jobs. A more radical proposal comes from Richard Clark, dean of the graduate college of education at the University of Massachusetts Boston: "Don't go to work at Hardees, and instead go to work on your homework, and we'll pay you for that...
...stakes are rising quickly for Boston high-schoolers. This year for the first time, students who don't complete their course work--of which homework counts at least 20%--cannot advance to the next grade. And freshmen entering high school this fall will have to pass tough state exams to graduate...
Bodley won't face that hurdle, but not doing homework could hinder her progress nonetheless. Her teachers say she has plenty of smarts, but the missed assignments added up to three Cs on her latest report card. More grades like those, her teachers worry, could keep her out of college...
...after doing two hours of homework, Molly sits down at the piano and practices for an hour. She'll barely have enough time to eat dinner and touch up that book report before crashing. "With less work I think we could learn what we're learning now," Molly says. "But I don't think it's too overwhelming." The strain of homework weighs more heavily on her mother. "I didn't feel [stressed] until I was in my 30s," says Libby, 43. "It hurts my feelings that my daughter feels that...
Most of us remember homework, if we remember it at all, as one of the minor annoyances of growing up. Sure, we dreaded the multiplication tables and those ridiculous shoe-box dioramas. But let's admit it: we finished most of our assignments on the bus ride to school--and who even bothered with the stuff until after the requisite hours had been spent alphabetizing baseball cards, gabbing on the phone or watching reruns of Gilligan's Island...