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• The Dog Ate My Homework: Detective With Thoughtful Wife Still Fired

  Published: August 24, 2007, 4:00 pm

  Tags: Crime, Drugs, Metro, Mm Meatballs, The Dog Ate My Homework

  "The Police Department has fired a veteran counterterrorism detective who failed a drug test, finding that his claim that his wife had served him marijuana-spiked meatballs was not credible, Paul J....

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• Text messaging homework angers parents

  Published: September 10, 2007, 1:02 pm

  Tags: Acronyms, Cell Phone, Cellphone, Grand Prairie Texas, Grandprairietexas, Homework, Jackson Middle School, Jacksonmiddleschool, Text, Text Language, Text Message, Text Messaging Homework, Texting, Textlanguage, Textmessage, Textmessaginghomework

  language of texting via a homework assignment. And that has some parents steamed.The sixth graders were instructed by their math teacher to decode a list of twenty text-messaging abbreviations. Maybe this was meant to be a lesson in research or something, but the fact that the list included codes such as (KPC) Keeping Parents Clueless and

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• Why am I doing freshman science write-ups when I am 37?

  Published: September 14, 2007, 7:00 am

  Tags: Homework, Public Schools, Publicschools, Tests, Waldorf Schools, Waldorfschools

  there was virtually no homework. Sure the kids learned but it was an altogether different approach to education; our nights and weekends were mostly free from any assignments.Now that my son is in a regular school there is homework every night. Every night. I know this is standard for most schools, but after an eight year hiatus from

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• Good Parenting Gone Horribly Wrong

  Published: October 5, 2007, 10:08 am

  Tags: Child Abuse, Education, Homework, Parenting Skills

  can read well, doing their homework, etc. So, a story like this one angers the soul because, though the parent's interest in the child might seem like it was well intended, the way the message was delivered was horribly

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• Teacher assigns homework--to parents

  Published: October 6, 2007, 11:55 pm

  Tags: K 12, Mommy Family, Research Academia Education, Education, Homework

  my own kids with their homework. If I had had actual homework assignments, I probably would be in a fruit basket by now. My husband traveled a great deal, so I was the one that made sure we all were prepared and ready for the next school day. Wait a minute. I have to catch my breath just thinking about it. Ashley Meeks of Adequate

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• Homework for parents

  Published: October 8, 2007, 8:02 am

  Tags: Homework, Parents, School, Schools, Teachers

  to get them to do their own homework. So, while this might be a wonderful idea in affluent communities where you have a lot of educated and stay-at-home parents, I suspect it's not so good for most of the country where parents, sadly, don't value education enough or don't have the time to take on such extra work. What do you think? Would you do

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• Your Tv Homework: To Watch Tonight

  Published: October 8, 2007, 5:45 pm

  Tags: To Watch Tonight, Your Tv Homework

  What to watch after trying, and failing, to beat our personal best of 4.00 ... • MLB: American League Division Series; Cleveland at New York Yankees, Game 4. Would someone tell the TBS site that they're showing the playoffs, and that the Braves aren't involved? [TBS] • NFL: Dallas at Buffalo. Ghost of Scott Norwood, we beseech thee

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• Your Tv Homework: To Watch Tonight

  Published: October 8, 2007, 5:45 pm

  Tags: To Watch Tonight, Your Tv Homework

  What to watch after trying, and failing, to beat our personal best of 4.00 ... • MLB: American League Division Series; Cleveland at New York Yankees, Game 4. Would someone tell the TBS site...

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• Discovery buys "How Stuff Works" web site

  Published: October 18, 2007, 10:30 am

  Tags: Discovery, Discovery Buys How Stuff Works, Discoverybuyshowstuffworks, Good Websites For Kids, Goodwebsitesforkids, Help Homework, Helpwithhomework, How Stuff Works, Howstuffworks, Resource For Kid Reports, Resourceforkidreports, Science

  toward their goal of making homework and special projects less stressful for parents everywhere. Okay, maybe that's not exactly what their mission statement says, but Discovery's recent acquisition of the How Stuff Works website is going to do just that. The company plans to use the already popular site as starting point for a wikipedia-like

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• Tv Homework: To Watch Tonight

  Published: October 19, 2007, 5:40 pm

  Tags: To Watch Tonight, Tv Homework

  What to watch after you've stepped up the volleyball rivalry a bit ... • College football: Louisville at Connecticut. The cardinal is the most fierce of all the tiny, small-beaked birds. [ESPN] • Golf: Champions Tour, AT&T Championship, first round, San Antonio. This time I shall find a way to beat you, Fred Funk! [The Golf Channel]

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• Tv Homework: To Watch Tonight

  Published: October 19, 2007, 5:40 pm

  Tags: To Watch Tonight, Tv Homework

  What to watch after you've stepped up the volleyball rivalry a bit ... • College football: Louisville at Connecticut. The cardinal is the most fierce of all the tiny, small-beaked birds....

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• Homework - Graphic Design

  Published: November 13, 2007, 9:46 am

  Tags: Designer, Studio, Graphic Design, Homework, Illustrations

  Some more great graphic design & illustration work from HomeworkhomeworkTechnorati Tags: Homework, Graphic Design, Illustrations, Designer, StudioPowered by ScribeFire.Subscribe to this feed

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• Homework

  Published: November 14, 2007, 11:08 am

  Tags: Education, Homework

  might have to rely less on homework to get done what couldn’t be done in class or (b) parents might see more value in the homework as an adjunct to an already solid academic education. I do have one good word to put in about homework, which often isn’t mentioned even in the pro-homework debate: Oversight. It’s through my

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• When do you do homework?

  Published: November 17, 2007, 7:01 am

  Tags: Homework, School, School Work, Schoolwork, Studying

  first, she was excited about homework as she never had any when she went to Montessori school. That excitement wore off pretty quickly and now she sees it as a chore.I have always thought the best way to deal with homework was to do it sooner as opposed to later. Ellie is allowed to have a snack and unwind a bit first, but I insist that she do

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• Getting too involved with your kid's homework, or not

  Published: November 19, 2007, 8:00 am

  Tags: Helicoptor Parents, High School, Highschool, Homework, Overzealous Parents, Parenting Without A License

  in is doing my children's homework for them. Sure, I am always available for a question or the small editing job, but actually doing it for them? Uh, no. My parents had the same approach with me. Sometimes when a huge project would be due I knew with absolute certainty that mine would have crooked lines while some of the other kids would have

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