Word: homeworks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wellesley College student grill with my friend Rick, waiting for the bus to take us to the "March for Women's Lives." Many of the women at the grill weren't going on the march. Too much homework. They seemed slightly miffed that two Harvard guys were displaying any sort of social conscience...
...funds for Pell Grants, Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, state block grants, Guaranteed Student Loans and virtually every other federal education program draws lessons from the 65-page report that include the need for consistent school discipline policies, "hard work" on the part of students, rigorous textbooks, and regular homework. Translation: obey rules and do your homework. Nobody is disputing these values; but they should not be a substitute for instituting programs. And if this is the theory behind the practice, it seems a poor cover-up for cutting federally funded programs--especially those for the underprivileged, whose effectiveness has been...
...WOULD be wonderful if the federal government had the money to fund all the possible public education programs that could benefit America's youth. Unfortunately, it doesn't. It would be nice if we could provide students with more than just the basics and hackneyed advice to "do your homework." In many cases...
Shanker's comment alluded to the 1960s and1970s, when "our schools made a big mistake oftelling their parents not to meddle withchildren's homework...
Students quaff these unknowns together, in recreated dorm rooms, in order for environments to resemble as much as possible those which the students experience when taking drugs on their own. "We play chess or even basketball, take walks, do homework. They give us dinner, chips with dip, order-out Italian food...They treat us much better than Harvard--and we're getting paid [to do this]," says one subject...