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...Kamakovsky spoke eight month's worth of English which he learned last winter by going to the city after an eight and a half hour workday to take a four and a half hour language class. Arriving home between 8 and 9 in the evening, he would begin his "homework" for the factory...
...majority of the schools give frequent tests and examinations, assign long hours of homework, spend generously on their libraries. They are not afraid to injure young psyches by publishing academic honors or assigning students to groups according to ability. About half the schools give superior students college-level work. Only one principal bothered to mention his physical plant as a major asset; only a few mentioned extracurricular activities. But their comments spoke volumes: "I am never happy except with superior work." "We simply refuse to accept mediocrity." "We started high and raised our standards from year to year." "When...
...since the night he inadvertently stumbled into the field of education. "A couple of weeks ago," he explains, "I was sitting here bored as hell, wondering what to do next and rattling on, and I make this innocent statement-something like: 'Hey, kids, I'll do your homework for you if you need help. Got lots of time.' " The invitation was no sooner out than the station's dormant night switchboard lit up like an electric train...
...Seattle's teachers and school officials have taken brainy Bob's service philosophically. "Elvis and learning," says one official, "seem an impossible combination, but I'm for it if it can be done." Adds Bob about his homework kick: "I don't know quite where it's taking me, but it's nice to hear the kids so mannerly. I must say I'm far, far more impressed by the questions they ask than the records they request...
...drill sessions include a fairly heavy dose of repetition of simple, everyday foreign phrases and imitation of the pronunciation of the instructor. Much of the homework consists of memorization of conversations which the students will then repeat during class. Work on grammar is done indirectly, for the most part; syntax is learned by the example of the phrases used and repeated...