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...Adds Teacher Lucille Whitehead, who also has sent four children to the school: "Parents are more cooperative. In public schools, kids do whatever they feel like doing and many parents don't seem to care. At Holy Angels, they even call if their kids don't have homework...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: We Put It All Together | 10/30/1972 | See Source »

Bassani floats along after his young characters on their Majno bicycles, quietly following the street maps of their days. With unobtrusive skill, he delineates the delicate social patterns that emerge from shared seats and invitations to do homework together. The hierarchical distinctions in his small city are minute. Many of them are noted by the loquacious Pulga. On first viewing the narrator's graceful patrician house, the boy cries, "Twenty rooms! I can imagine what it must cost to heat them." So realistic a thought has never occurred to the narrator, who lives in an insulated world of private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fall Collection | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

...rational response to all this seemingly nonsensical noise is to ignore both sides and either follow the football team or do your Mongolian homework...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: Radicals Counter Traditional Orientation | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

...SUGAR DAN. He and his wife Loretta completed high school equivalency courses at the college and now are among about 40 people who have graduated into the col lege's regular curriculum. "They don't want to be patronized," says Bruce Bauer. "They really do their homework and some of our kids are hard put to keep up with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Learning for the Aged | 7/17/1972 | See Source »

...Tell Reader Carol Keough to fret no longer about discrimination appearing in math problems. Women's Lib is snowing up at the college level. Here is the kind of math homework my son struggles with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1972 | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

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