Word: homework
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...attributes the gap to class differences. J.F.K. students come from two neighborhoods-a middle-class area known as the Pocket, and a low-income, predominantly black and Hispanic part of town called Meadowview. Lower-income parents, he says, are often less able to spend time helping their kids with homework and encouraging them to learn. "Some surveys say poor children actually hear a million less words a year in the formative years," he says...
...Homework is usually controversial only for the students who have to do it. But this summer the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which customarily assigns a book to its incoming freshmen, chose Approaching the Qur'an, a set of heavily annotated excerpts from the Muslim Holy Writ. Chancellor James Moeser reportedly asked his trustees, "What could be more timely?" And what could be more predictable than the brouhaha that followed: the rumbling overture on Christian websites; the brassy solo by Fox News's Bill O'Reilly, who compared the assignment to having students read Hitler's Mein Kampf...
...nine-year-old, music practice can be a drag, meaning parents typically have to wield the baton, if not the whip. Anoushka Shankar was no exception when it came to shirking homework on the special miniature sitar her folks had made for her when she was that age. "They would sit me down periodically and say 'You don't have to do this. But if you do it, you need to be serious about it,' " she says. Anoushka Shankar became so serious that by the time she was 13 she was performing alongside her father, whose name is synonymous with...
...richer; even other people's paper profits had a magical effect: Times are good; the Dow is up; let's go to the Sizzler instead of McDonald's, the Seychelles instead of Sarasota. Cabbies turned day traders got crushed when the NASDAQ tanked, but careful investors who did their homework were the luckiest generation ever. Pay $9.95 a trade, buy and hold, and retire...
...richer; even other people's paper profits had a magical effect: Times are good; the Dow is up; let's go to the Sizzler instead of McDonald's, the Seychelles instead of Sarasota. Cabbies turned day traders got crushed when the NASDAQ tanked, but careful investors who did their homework were the luckiest generation ever. Pay $9.95 a trade, buy and hold, and retire...