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  2. 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)

  3. 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.

  4. History of education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Students were drilled in Greek, Latin, geometry, ancient history, logic, ethics, and rhetoric, with few discussions, little homework, and no lab sessions. The college president typically tried to enforce strict discipline. Many students were younger than 17, and most of the colleges also operated a preparatory school.

  5. George Dantzig - Wikipedia

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    George Bernard Dantzig (/ ˈ d æ n t s ɪ ɡ /; November 8, 1914 – May 13, 2005) was an American mathematical scientist who made contributions to industrial engineering, operations research, computer science, economics, and statistics.

  6. Banning homework has become a trend in schools

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    According to AP, a growing number of elementary schools and other individual teachers have banned homework so kids can have more free time to play, spend time with their families and sleep.

  7. History of PDF - Wikipedia

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    ISO 32000-1:2008 is the first ISO standard for full function PDF. The previous ISO PDF standards (PDF/A, PDF/X, etc.) are subsets intended for more specialized uses. ISO 32000-1 includes all of the functionality previously documented in the Adobe PDF Specifications for versions 1.0 through 1.7.

  8. Russell Freedman - Wikipedia

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    It was during this time that Freedman wrote his first novel after reading an article about a blind teenage boy who invented a Braille typewriter. The book, Teenagers Who Made History, was published in 1961. After its publication, Freedman quit his job and became a full-time writer. [4]

  9. Exam - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 January 2025. Educational assessment For other uses, see Exam (disambiguation) and Examination (disambiguation). Cambodian students taking an exam in order to apply for the Don Bosco Technical School of Sihanoukville in 2008 American students in a computer fundamentals class taking an online test in ...