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...large non-English-speaking community. "Many of our newly arrived immigrants don't understand what they can do to support their child's success, and they don't understand the system - there's no point in going to the school board when you're concerned about your child's homework," says Anne Thompson, director of the Miami-Dade program. Because of language issues, she often sees students having to do their parents' jobs in terms of navigating school bureaucracy. (See pictures of teens and how they would vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Help the Kids, Parents Go Back to School | 11/8/2009 | See Source »

...particularly a fan of New Zealand wine. Sauvignon Blancs.”Making our way over to the formal dining room, Mankiw starts to get a little nervous as the table is in a state of disarray, covered with the children’s schoolbooks and homework. “I might get in trouble for this,” he says. “I don’t think my wife wanted us to come in here...

Author: By Catherine J. Zielinski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FM Cribs Presents: N. Gregory Mankiw | 11/5/2009 | See Source »

...senior and Wilson was a sophomore, both lived in Lowell.  “I loved my time at Harvard,” Maybank says. “I had a great social experience here, a great social life, and then did a little bit of homework too along the way.” That bit of homework led Maybank to a finance job in New York City, and then later to Harvard Business School where she bumped into Wilson...

Author: By Kylie S. Gleason, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Guilt-Free Shopping | 10/15/2009 | See Source »

...taking ownership of my actions and reminding myself that, just because my lab work or homework kept me in on a Thursday night, I wasn’t a martyr for science, deserving of sympathy.     To me, not having to pretend to dislike things that I actually appreciate is the most liberating aspect of my experience at Harvard...

Author: By JONATHAN B. STEINMAN, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Geek-Chic | 10/15/2009 | See Source »

Students interested in preservation work should look out for follow-up events in the Mount Auburn Cemetery Web site, before they’re buried alive under mountains of homework...

Author: By STEPHANIE R. MCCARTNEY, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Neverending Task | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

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