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...often, says Harvard's Riesman, public schools cater to teen-agers desire "to be entertained." Consequently, homework and requirements have gone down, grades have gone up. Watered-down curriculums fail to challenge. "The only places in schools today where people are really encouraged to perform up to capacity are in sports and the band," says Riesman, adding that elitism is almost as dirty a word as sexism or racism " Back-to-basics proponents advocate tightening up the curriculum with more requirements and forcing all students to show minimal competency" in essential skills before graduating. So far, 26 states have passed...
...institution of learning." School-tax rebellions attest to parental dissatisfaction. Other indicators are experiments in Illinois and California with performance "contracts" between schools and parents. Example: in Oakland, teachers and parents last month signed a contract in which the teachers agreed to assign homework and parents in turn promised to provide their children with a quiet corner for studying every night...
Please inform my son that he should do some more homework and spend less time writing for your newspaper. He's at Harvard to get an education, you know, not to write me letters. Besides, he calls home four times a week as well. Sincerely, Sybil K. Savit...
...OFTEN the difference between an uninspiring show and a good one lies in the energy a cast can muster, both individually and as a unit. If a cast has a collective feeling and the actors do their homework, the audience senses a flow that carries it along from scene to scene. Without that intangible, scenes fall flat, jokes sound stale, and productions become free-for-alls of thespian one-upmanship. Exceptions on any level are rare, particularly on the college level. This problem takes a particularly acute form at the Loeb's Mainstage Theater, a beautifully appointed but somewhat cavernous...
...mathematical skills. Students at the end of each afternoon write a review of their day's activity in their journals. The various historic sites on the island--first settled in 1627, the island served as a British encampment during the Revolutionary War--provide resources for social investigations. In homework assignments, Thomson staffers ask students to apply what they have learned on the island to investigations of their own mainland communities...