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Wi-Fi Turns Rowdy Bus Into Rolling Study Hall Texting, Surfing, Studying? Kindergarten Cram SAT Pressure Is On, and Even Online Prepsters Noodge It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Dash Informal Style of Electronic Messages Is Showing Up in Schoolwork, Study Finds For Parents, a New Concern: Teenagers and Laptops On Demand, on Time and for a Fee, an Army of Tutors Appears Offering Fresh Weapons Against Test Anxiety Spreading Homework Out So Even Parents Have Some Popular Demand The Debate Over Homework: Two Views In Homework Wars, Student Wins a Battle: More Time to Unwind on Vacation School Textbooks Aren't Necessary
In an Arizona district, the “Internet Bus” has made students more productive and less rambunctious.
In an age of multimedia and multitasking, we have a lot to learn.
Today’s kindergartners prepare for a life of multiple-choice boxes by plowing through standardized tests and toiling over reading curricula.
An online SAT prep course pushes slackers with a low-tech, old fashioned technique a phone call to their parents.
Zipping children to and from after-school activities while running a business via BlackBerry makes Pam Levy’s afternoons more tightly choreographed than a Busby Berkeley musical.
About half of 700 students surveyed said they sometimes omitted proper punctuation and capitalization in school assignments.
The ease with which laptops travel to bedrooms, basements and even bathrooms makes it especially challenging for adults to monitor children’s activities.
Sick of doing 5th-grade homework? Get an online tutor for your child.
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An English teacher at a high school in New Jersey has asked parents to complete assignments based on their children’s work as a way to increase parental involvement.
The public school year in Augusta, Ga., started on Aug. 13, and in Houston, 14 days later. The first day of class for some 13,000 students in schools in Rapid City, South Dakota, and, for 1.1 million students in New York City’s elementary, middle and high schools, was the day after Labor Day. The first day for homework is up to the teachers.
Three letters respond to April 4 article on homework; Natalia Thompson, high school sophomore, says less homework during vacations keeps her rejuvenated; Anna Krauthammer holds homework is valuable teaching tool that should be used thoughtfully and reasonably; Mitch Kurz says homework is one of few tools teachers control that can help them provide individualized instruction
What often gets lost in the debate over how much homework children should get is some common sense.
Barbara A Branca letter on March 11 article holds teachers, not textbooks, teach children