Word: homework
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Unrealistic promises. No more homework! Commencement before June! Professors who care about teaching undergraduates! Sure, it won’t happen. But that means that you can run on it for multiple years...
...panel, he spoke about his surveys of secondary school children, which revealed that among classmates, there is practically no difference in the amount of time spent on homework by blacks, Latinos, and whites. However, Asian-American students devoted 30 minutes more to homework in regular classes and 45 minutes more in Advanced Placement and honors courses...
Many of my friends are also turning 50, and they seem to be having much the same problem. Midlife crisis? Sure, I'll put it on the to-do list, after the dishes, supervising homework and paying the bills. Being part of the delayed-parenthood generation, quite a few of my friends are smack in the middle of raising kids. At least one of my peers--a champion procrastinator--just celebrated her first child's first birthday. Others have kids that are nearly grown but, real estate prices being what they are, that doesn't mean their nests will...
...there’s a quality reason for avoiding homework...
...electronic system will save trees and tabulation time. The new system will also be far more flexible and open to reform. Already, this flexibility is being exploited to rework the format of the evaluations, allowing students to rate classes overall first before they evaluate secondary areas like difficulty and homework. We hope that increased flexibility will also lead to at least one other format change. Currently, the scale used to judge professors and Teaching Fellows ranges from 1-5, a far too limited span considering that students rarely give professors ones or twos. An extended scale from 1-7 would...