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Friday, October 12, 2012

Jersey Jazzman: Homework: Training For Blind Obedience

Jersey Jazzman: Homework: Training For Blind Obedience:


Homework: Training For Blind Obedience

Leave it to the French to put homework into proper perspective:
French President Francois Hollande has been making good on a slew of campaign promises since taking office—like this, and this, and this—and now he's making headlines as he turns to education. The reason? He pledged this week to ban homework, reports France24. "Work should be done at school, rather than at home,” he said, adding that students who don't get much help from their parents at home end up at an unfair disadvantage in the classroom. He also plans to reduce the number of kids held back each year.
Think about it: the average 16-year-old on a college track in America spends seven to eight hours a day in