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...students perform better. For years it's been conventional wisdom that homework teaches kids to manage time, organize and learn on their own. And there is some statistical evidence that, at least in junior high and high school, homework improves academic achievement. But, argue authors John Buell and Etta Kralovec in The End of Homework, "both research and historical experience fail to demonstrate the necessity or efficacy of ever longer hours of homework." Kralovec, an educational researcher and former teacher, and Buell, a political scientist, note that not a single study conclusively establishes homework's advantages. And, says Kralovec, think...
...Homework is done in radically different environments and is biased against poorer kids," says Etta Kralovec, director of educational studies at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. In the early '90s she surveyed Maine high school dropouts, who all cited their inability to keep up with homework as a major factor in the decision to leave school. Kralovec's solution to the inequities: "Homework should be done in school by all students--poor, middle and upper class--so that they all have the same access to computers and teachers." Boston's Dorchester High School has taken...
...line-up for the game today will be as follows: HARVARD 1915. CORNELL 1915. Coolidge, l.e. r.e., Ohern Atkinson, l.t. r.t., Mallory Withington, l.g. r.g., Sittenger Wigglesworth, c. c., Kralovec Weston, r.g. l.g., Williams Iselin, r.t. l.t., Collier Weatherhead, r.e. l.e., Hubbard Logan, q.b. q.b., Taber Brickley, l.h.b. r.h.b., McCutcheon Hardwick, r.h.b. l.h.b., Schuler Bradlee, f.b. f.b., Laurie
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