Word: schoolwork
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...time passes, tutors say, prisoners grow interested in the schoolwork. Inmates speak of fellow prisoners who originally came for the "good time" but grew interested in algebra. After a while, some prisoners are more eager to do school work than their tutors. "I feel like I've brought out in some guys an interest that was latent," Freed says...
...areas, one must recognize that Harvard students do not act as they did in high school. Few students performed only one activity in high school, but few are dedicated to more than one activity now. And if you take a look around, the chief activity of every undergraduate remains schoolwork...
...them girls, are in the program. Upon a student's arrival, counselors gather a personal history, which often reveals that a pattern of academic decline began with some crisis: the death of a parent, an episode of sexual abuse. During their daily 5 1/2 hours, students do regular schoolwork and take part in a much praised program developed by Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith, the state's public health commissioner, that tries to teach them how to discharge anger without resorting to violence. The school also uses scare-tactic "field trips." At Boston's Charles Street jail, for instance, students talk...
...might agree. In its landmark 1969 Tinker decision, the Supreme Court held that a school acted unconstitutionally when it suspended students for wearing black armbands to class in protest against the Viet Nam War. Schools may curtail those rights, the court ruled, only when the student expression substantially disrupts schoolwork or discipline, or invades the rights of others...
...things put in the balance--a sense of guilt for leaving a morass of schoolwork unfinished, on the one hand; a single-minded psychotic unwillingness to remain one more second in Cambridge on the other--I welcomed the opportunity to rise before dawn on Friday, the 8th of January, to begin the long journey to San Francisco. Because one is flying west against the predominant winds and counter to the rotation of the earth, departure must be delayed, the inflight food is half-charred-half-frozen, and you gain three hours on landing. Probably an astrophsyicist could figure this...