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About the only thing my town has going for it is a grand, ivy-decked library. On vacations, I always soothe my slightly troubled conscience with the promise that if I don't read schoolwork, I will at least read a few good books. So every year I take out four great books and one of my favorite mysteries, read the mystery and take the others back to the library at the end of the week, never opened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Springtime in Suburbia | 3/23/1978 | See Source »

...foreign-born students in America?76% of them Hispanic?are taught at least some of their schoolwork in 70 dialects and languages. The federal Office of Bilingual Education alone sponsors 700 programs in 41 states and five territories, at a cost of $135 million; the spectrum of languages sweeps from Aleut in Alaska to Yiddish in New York. Meanwhile, at least ten states have passed legislation mandating bilingual instruction in those school districts with a minimum number of children?usually ten to 20?who speak a foreign language and are seriously deficient in English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Three Rs in 70 Tongues | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

Marijuana and beer are common. But Marshfield's students ?mostly fresh-faced kids who favor down-filled jackets and track shoes?would rather go hiking than rehearse for the school play, just as they are often more interested in their jobs than in their schoolwork. Marshfield, concur most students, is an O.K. place. It just isn't very exciting?in class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Schools Under Fire | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

...self-centered to be outraged by oppression going on halfway around the world." His article has a fine example: the disproportionately large protest by Dunster and Mather students over hot breakfast. Hardly ever before had I seen so many students so enthusiastic, so willing to take time from schoolwork, so eager to stand fifteen minutes in a food line so that they could pound their knives and forks on the tables of Leverett--and all this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Perverted Priorities | 6/14/1977 | See Source »

...former president of a social fraternity I must report that our fraternity was based on the notion of brotherhood and friendship through sports, parties, sometimes schoolwork, and not through hazing activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 20, 1976 | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

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