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Students get fast relief from the headache of homework...
...afternoon in Los Angeles. At station KLCS-TV, Channel 58, the show is ready to roll. A phone rings and the man before the camera picks it up. "Welcome to Homework Hotline," he says. "I'm Ira Moskow ... I have John from Hughes Junior High on the line." When John, whose last name is Kellenberger, explains that he is having trouble converting 397 millimeters to meters, Moskow holds up a metric chart and asks, "Can you find meters on the chart, John?" Silence. "John?" "Yes." Gradually Moskow leads John out of his quandary, never providing the solution directly...
...exchange is typical for Hotline, the latest hit show among the call-in homework programs that are bringing aid and comfort to homework sufferers around the nation. Hotline is aired from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday by the Los Angeles Unified School District. Its targets are math and English for junior high schoolers. "That's where the homework really starts to pile up for the first time," says Producer Bob Greene. Launched as a pilot last spring, Hotline drew 3,500 calls in twelve weeks, including a daily ring from Avery Smith...
Moskow, a math teacher at Los Angeles' Foshay Junior High School, is one of eight Hotline regulars who run the show, rotating 15-minute stints on-camera. Says he: "I love talking to the students. When one takes the time to call Homework Hotline, he really wants to understand." Hotline opens the phones on its special number, 1-800-LASTUDY, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., with the teachers joined by a squad of college student tutors who help keep up with the weekly average of 600 calls. Routine questions are dealt with quickly. The more intriguing ones like...
Although a few other school districts, including those in Jacksonville, Fort Wayne, Ind., and Anchorage, provide televised homework help, only Jacksonville has drawn a response comparable to that in Los Angeles. Yet a growing number of cities, using only telephones, operate thriving hotlines. Brooklyn's Central Library, with funding from the New York City board of education, runs a homework hotline Monday through Thursday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. for all twelve grades. Another New York student service, Dial-A-Teacher, gets a fair number of calls from mothers and fathers trying to be home tutors. "Parents generally...