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...this success appears to be persistence and a better attitude toward learning. Most of them (68%) did homework, in contrast with only 40% of the control group. Only 19% of the preschoolers had to go into remedial classes, about half as many as in the control group, and fewer tended to be troublemakers. More preschoolers held after-school jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Preschool Pays | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

Worse than the unguided guest is one who cannot talk at all. Brokaw also recalls with a shudder .ininterview with an Italian film director who suddenly froze and reverted to his native tongue. Brokaw had, as usual, done his homework and answered his own questions while the film director nodded "Si, si, si. "CBS'S Schieffer had a some what similar experience. He was interviewing a Soviet emigree who suddenly began arguing with her translator. For three minutes the two argued in Russian until the matter was resolved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle for the Morning | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

...though Harvard hasn't given up the fight, University lawyers "have some homework to do" to figure out possible ways to challenge the nomination, Supratik Bose, a University planning officer, said yesterday...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Parts of History | 11/15/1980 | See Source »

Bossert said it is "unfortunate" that students copied one another's work especially since the seven homework assignments count for only one-fourth of the final grade...

Author: By David M. Morris, | Title: Professor to Investigate Alleged Copying of Work | 11/4/1980 | See Source »

...alleged cheating was discovered, Bossert said, because students had submitted homework with "identical and unusual" variable names. The students in question know their advisors are aware of their alleged cheating, he added...

Author: By David M. Morris, | Title: Professor to Investigate Alleged Copying of Work | 11/4/1980 | See Source »

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