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  2. Horace Mann - Wikipedia

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    Horace Mann was born in Franklin, Massachusetts. [4] His father was a farmer without much money. Mann was the great-grandson of Samuel Man. [5]From age ten to age twenty, he had no more than six weeks' schooling during any year, [6] but he made use of the Franklin Public Library, the first public library in America.

  3. Homework - Wikipedia

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    Closing the Book on Homework: Enhancing Public Education and Freeing Family Time by John Buell (2004) The Battle Over Homework: Common Ground for Administrators, Teachers, and Parents by Harris Cooper Archived 2012-07-23 at the Wayback Machine (2007) The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing by Alfie Kohn (2006)

  4. History of books - Wikipedia

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    Before the introduction of books, writing on bone, shells, wood and silk was prevalent in China long before the 2nd century BCE, until paper was invented in China around the 1st century CE. China's first recognizable books called jiance or jiandu , were made of rolls of thin split and dried bamboo bound together with hemp, silk, or leather. [ 14 ]

  5. Kalli Dakos - Wikipedia

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    1996:The Goof Who Invented Homework and Other School Poems; 1998:Don't Read This Book, Whatever You Do! More Poems About School; 1999:Mrs. Cole on an Onion Roll; 2000:"The Greatest Magic: Poems for Teachers" (Only available for distribution through school markets)

  6. Banning homework has become a trend in schools

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    They opted to ban homework this school year based in part on the book "The Homework Myth." "They're just kids. They're pretty young and they just put in a full day's shift at work and so we just ...

  7. The dog ate my homework - Wikipedia

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    "The dog ate my homework" (or "My dog ate my homework") is an English expression which carries the suggestion of being a common, poorly fabricated excuse made by schoolchildren to explain their failure to turn in an assignment on time. The phrase is referenced, even beyond the educational context, as a sarcastic rejoinder to any similarly glib ...

  8. Mark Twain - Wikipedia

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    The book lampoons American and Western society in the same way that Innocents critiqued the various countries of Europe and the Middle East. Twain's next work was The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, his first attempt at writing a novel. The book, written with Twain's neighbor Charles Dudley Warner, is also his only collaboration.

  9. Antonio Meucci - Wikipedia

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    Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci (/ m eɪ ˈ uː tʃ i / may-OO-chee, [1] Italian: [anˈtɔːnjo meˈuttʃi]; 13 April 1808 – 18 October 1889) was an Italian inventor and an associate of Giuseppe Garibaldi, a major political figure in the history of Italy.