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...unfair!'' I had exclaimed at the time, indignant that my child was being discriminated against. ''But Mommy,'' said Meiping, ''the teacher told us the children of workers and peasants have to do housework or cook the evening meal after school, and their parents can't help them with homework. The treatment I get is fair if you consider all that.'' She had learned to be philosophical at a young age. ( Because my daughter had to try harder, she did well. In middle school, she was a student leader and won honors and prizes. She seemed happily adjusted. Although we lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life and Death in Shanghai | 2/5/2007 | See Source »

With three fresh courses on the course menu for this spring mandating a community service component, students are increasingly seeing syllabi in which homework entails more than required reading. In a new collaboration, the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), and the Harvard Public Service Network held an information session yesterday to introduce students to 10 “activity-based learning” classes, three of which haven’t been offered before. Each of the courses includes community service to prompt students to draw from a volunteer experience...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ten Courses Teach With Community | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

...in’ say, “Gladly.”Breaking news: as I am writing this article, I just discovered the cure for cancer—BAWLS.In addition, BAWLS can function in many diverse ways. I drink BAWLS to 1) help me stay up and do homework, 2) have a jolly fun time with my closest friends, 3) quench my thirst, and 4) destroy justice, but then rediscover it anew, and make it a way more kickass version of justice.BAWLS can do so much. My friend told me that this one time, BAWLS killed Hitler.Speaking of BAWLS...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bawls to the Wawl | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

...finishes them with a cover of quilted wool and cotton. "More than half of the inquiries we get are from consumers who don't want synthetic fire retardants in their mattresses," says Scott Carwile, who co-owns Vivtique with his brother Steve. "More people are doing their homework...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sleep Goes Green | 1/12/2007 | See Source »

...Vida in Jamaica Plain. “This year the choir voted on children, domestic violence, and education as the top three types of causes it would like to support. Casa Nueva Vida combines these initiatives as a special interest homeless shelter which provides job training for women and homework help for their kids,” said member Heather S. Horn ’08. While the traditionally full house for carol services includes many individuals who have been coming for years, Senior Choir Secretary Michael T. Wilson ’07 describes first-time participation in the carol...

Author: By Alison S. Cohn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Come All Ye Cantab Carolers | 12/14/2006 | See Source »

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