Word: workloads
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Bennett and Kalish have a more modest proposal. Parents should demand a sensible homework policy, perhaps one based on Cooper's rule of thumb: 10 min. a night per grade level. They offer lessons from their own battle to rein in the workload at their kids' private middle school in Brooklyn, N.Y. Among their victories: a nightly time limit, a policy of no homework over vacations, no more than two major tests a week, fewer weekend assignments and no Monday tests...
...don’t be fooled: most Freshman Seminars, even though they are graded Sat/Unsat, are not jokes. Though most seminars have lighter workloads than typical Harvard classes, there are still papers and readings to be done. And taking a course with a lighter workload, especially while making the transition into college, can be advantageous...
...going it alone," says Federer. "I learned a lot about myself and my team because I only had people working with me whom I 100% trusted." He did hire a part-time coach in early 2005, and re-signed with IMG that summer, in part to ease Vavrinec's workload. "She would have to get tough with the media [and] say no," Federer says. "People would say she is a bad person. She is my girlfriend, after all, so it was a conflict at times." The move also boosted his earnings. IMG helped Federer sign a $15 million deal with...
...Harvard curriculum: four-and-a-half hours of instruction every day, starting almost with dawn. It seems you can take the classes out of Harvard, but not the Harvard out of the classes—not only regarding difficulty, but also the requisite complaints of the students about their workload. Only, one must be slightly more inventive in a different language. So, my first week in Beijing wasn’t the usual rush of the Great Wall, Tiananmen Square, and the touristy splendor of the Palace Museum. It was mostly my textbook and me holed up in a dull...
...reasons given for not taking a vacation is that it's too much extra work. We have to get ahead of our workload in order to leave, and then we have to catch up on our workload upon our return. The longer the vacation we take, the bigger the stumbling blocks appear. So only 14% of Americans will take a vacation two weeks or longer this summer. Bottom line: it's simply become too stressful to relax...