"The parents who have jobs or are working every day and the young man who's going to school every day and lifting after or playing basketball and then going home and doing homework, all they know after seeing that story is, 'That's a mess down there, '" Golden said.
If parents were not pushing them at home to do their homework or get good marks, then they were more likely to disengage.
After working from 8.30am to 5pm he still has to come home to do two hours homework.
Students go home with two hours of homework each day, and they can call their teachers' cell phones with any questions.
Homeowners are tearing down walls and building open-plan kitchens that blend into dens or great rooms, and in some cases include homework stations or home offices.
In other words, do the tricks work only during the experiment or do the children learn to apply them at home, when deciding between homework and television?
My son's day care started sending home gifted-and-talented homework at the age of 2.
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Congress has just decided to send the titans of the auto industry back home with empty hands and a big homework assignment - come up with a business plan to get the big three, Chrysler, Ford, and GM, back in the black.
So that means when you go home, right, after you finish your homework, before you turn on the TV, turn on the radio and move.
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The survey also includes information about the home background of pupils - with signs that homework had increased in all age groups, less reading materials were available in homes and 9 and 13 year olds were less likely to be watching six hours of television a day and more likely to be using a computer.
Instead, a private school in Scotland has given sleek new iPads to every single one of its pupils to use in class and to even take home, nixing the excuse that the dog ate their homework.
And let me tell you, sometimes when I get -- I went home, I got to see Malia and Sasha, check homework, all that stuff.
Parents -- (applause) -- you can't complain about the schools and complain about the teachers, but when your child comes home, they're playing video games and not doing homework, and you don't have time to go to your teacher and parent -- teacher-parent meeting.
When the children get home, the parents are too tired to help the kids with their homework, let alone setting down and having a "Family Dinner", with everyone at the table.
After school, we played and did our homework, had dinner, and then our father would come home around 6:30, spend some time with us, often in the pool, and put us to bed around 8:00.
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She said, at the most basic level, lack of a home internet connection or a computer could mean that children struggled to research homework or complete coursework and were unable to access school websites which allow pupils to submit work digitally and receive feedback from teachers.
And I've been here for three years at Mary's Center, working in the Teen Program, and they help us with our homework and with anything we need, whether we have problems at home or anything else.
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After coming home, he would have a quick dinner in front of the TV and then do homework till midnight.
Some bad behaviour is clearly linked to problems at home, and their effect on nutrition, attitudes to authority and the ability to do homework.
"My dad wasn't one to do homework with me, to help with school projects, " he says by phone from his home in Puerto Rico.
The amount of homework, the high-stakes testing, and other stress factors was leading to anxiety and depression at home.
Back in the dusty yard of her home just below the school built from tyres and mud in Khan al Amar, Manar is concentrating hard on her homework.
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