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...sixth-grader settles down to tackle her homework on a weekday afternoon in 2004. Instead of hunching over the kitchen table with a three-ring binder, she's sitting on the bus with her laptop. She logs on to the Internet to take a math-skills test on the school home page and get her own personalized assignment, downloads the software she'll need, seeks help from an online school librarian and e-mails the finished work to her teacher. Mom and Dad check in from their office computers, comparing her scores with the class and state averages...
...outward appearances, Ashanthi ("Ashi") DeSilva is a normal, healthy 12-year-old who loves sports and would rather play basketball than do her seventh-grade homework. But Ashi holds a unique place in medical history: she is the first recipient of successful gene therapy...
...give more homework than any otherundergraduate course," he says." I do give a lotof homework, but it's interesting, not technicaland routine...
David E. Speyer '02, a student in Math 55,attended the Math Olympiad Program during hissummers in high school. Speyer says he finds thework manageable as long as he works hard andspends time on the homework...
After computing the homework score for hiscurrent students, he say that the lowest score wasabout 72 percent, with most scores in the 80s and90s...