Word: homeworks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...probably hear as many stories as teachers hear about why [students] can't do their homework--you know, the dog ate it," says Clifford...
...officials are serious about helping Blacks in South Africa, they should study possible internships carefully and without reference to political considerations here at Harvard. The current program has been poorly planned and poorly constructed. Perhaps it can be improved in the future, but the University has to do its homework first...
...second grade, Eric has been coming twice a week for 90-minute sessions in math and phonics since August. "He just wasn't keeping up in class," says his mother Donna. Now, however, his grades have climbed from Cs to Bs, and, says Donna proudly, "he gets his homework done. He has the discipline to do it by himself...
...work as a supplement to the classroom teaching going on in prison, helping them with homework assignments and work books," says Bryant. Prisoners come for help on a voluntary basis, and it is regarded as a privilege to see the tutors, says Bryant, who may work one-on-one or rotate among a few prisoners, depending upon how many people are there...
...tutors start out working through homework problems with the prisoner, but it's not unusual for the subject to stray from the Pythagorean theorem to something else, says Tina Vanasse '88, leader of the Billerica tutoring group. "Some prisoners are nervous at first. They don't swear and they're real careful about what they say," says Vanasse, a volunteer at Billerica since her freshman year...