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  2. Homework - Wikipedia

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    Homework is a set of tasks assigned to students by their teachers to be completed at home. Common homework assignments may include required reading, ...

  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. 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) 2002:The Bug in Teacher's Coffee and Other School Poems

  5. List of people considered father or mother of a scientific field

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    The following is a list of people who are considered a "father" or "mother" (or "founding father" or "founding mother") of a scientific field.Such people are generally regarded to have made the first significant contributions to and/or delineation of that field; they may also be seen as "a" rather than "the" father or mother of the field.

  6. Banning homework has become a trend in schools

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    For some kids, school work is actually done when the last bell rings at the end of the day. According to AP, a growing number of elementary schools and other individual teachers have banned ...

  7. Milestones: A look back at AOL's 35 year history as an ...

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    America Online CEO Stephen M. Case, left, and Time Warner CEO Gerald M. Levin listen to senators' opening statements during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the merger of the two ...

  8. Tim Berners-Lee - Wikipedia

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    Berners-Lee was born in London on 8 June 1955, [24] the son of mathematicians and computer scientists Mary Lee Woods (1924–2017) and Conway Berners-Lee (1921–2019). His parents were both from Birmingham and worked on the Ferranti Mark 1, the first commercially-built computer.

  9. Alexander Graham Bell - Wikipedia

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    The bel (B) and the smaller decibel (dB) are units of measurement of sound pressure level (SPL) invented by Bell Labs and named after him. [218] [N 28] [219] Since 1976, the IEEE's Alexander Graham Bell Medal has been awarded to honor outstanding contributions in the field of telecommunications. A.G. Bell issue of 1940