Word: homeworkers
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Jeffrey D. Ballinger, a research associate at the Kennedy School and researcher on sweatshops, told the protesters they were "on the right track," but urged them to "do their homework." If students learned the specifics of sweatshops that make Harvard apparel, he said, they could more effectively fight to end their existence...
...admit I have a problem. It's one thing to arrive at 9:20 each morning for Spanish A; it's quite another show up at 9:45, without the homework. (That comes later.) I realize it's got to stop. I didn't know it at the time, but that's why I became an FM associate editor...
...admit I have a problem. It's one thing to arrive at 9:20 each morning for Spanish A; it's quite another show up at 9:45, without the homework. (That comes later.) I realize it's got to stop. I didn't know it at the time, but that's why I became an FM associate editor...
...MAKE HOMEWORK A PRIORITY...
TIME's article on homework [EDUCATION, Jan. 25] might be describing an alarming new epidemic. Yet the reluctance of children to do homework is not new. Moreover, there is a curious silence about television, although you did describe what happened when a mother "tried" banning television for a night. Absent any evidence to the contrary, it seems clear these children are consuming an excessive ration of TV each night. Television is bad enough in itself without pre-empting time that would be better spent on homework. To the extent that there is a homework problem, it is a failure...