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...seems to me, is whether we want an educational system that will change the experience of America for millions of students. It is reasonable to assume that school life will be much more difficult for future students if Clinton's proposals go through. Students would have much more homework, a cottage industry of test prep courses and books would spring up along every suburban highway, students would have fewer free hours and far more responsibilities. For some number of students, the frustration of repeating grades until "they got it right" could be crushing...
...They still have to do their homework tounderstand what the best environment is for them,"said...
...made me feel subversive. I also had an oriental rug and make-shift halogen spot lights which I turned on and off with a remote control. Sometimes the seniors would steal the clicker and conduct a light show for me from outside my door while I tried to do homework...
...heard it all before: thanks to our decisively Asian values, Asian Americans have "made it" as an immigrant group; we have surpassed all other minorities and, in some cases, even our white counterparts. That quiet Asian classmate of yours who spent all his time doing extra homework between Kumon and piano lessons had it right; his work ethic explains the rise of the Asian tigers, or at least it did until the recent financial crisis. A great story, a model in fact, but interestingly enough, its protagonist, the quiet Asian American, appears oddly silent...
...eyes don't seem like they're telling the truth," Cassidy Berlin, 12, a sixth-grader from West Lafayette, Ind., observes of the President. "I was doing my spelling homework in front of the TV. It took me an hour to get it done instead of the usual 15 minutes." But of course. Bill and Monica have added a few words to the vocabulary list...