White working class pupils were one of two ethnic groups who reported doing the least amount of homework, who had the lowest aspirations and lowest self-confidence.
But the real money, the Warren Buffett money, comes from doing your homework and then going against the herd.
"He'd been doing his homework on the oceans, " Ms. Chisholm said.
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We want ironclad assurance from the federal government that insures our savings because it excuses us from doing any kind of homework on the banks we use--plus we know someone other than us will be penalized if it turns out we chose the wrong bank.
This underscores the importance of doing your homework and keeping an eye on your investments.
To make sure the kids are doing their homework, going to bed early and eating their vegetables.
It is a room for Mr. Rubin's son, age 15, to prepare his science presentation, or for Mr. Rubin to read while the rest of the family is doing homework or watching television.
And he found that he could cut the dropout rate dramatically by doing away with homework and incorporating income-generating activities such as fish cultivation and livestock rearing in the school curriculum.
Between 2007 and 2010, they spent an extra four minutes during weekdays on educational activities, such as attending class and doing homework, according to the survey.
Angry Birds alone has sucked up a gazillion hours in which my kids could have been, I dunno, cleaning out the garage, or doing their homework.
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While the single mother helps fliers pick their seats, her five children, ages 4 to 16, occasionally sit in the same bedroom-office doing homework.
So my hope and expectation is that, as a consequence of us doing our homework, we can explore with the parties a mechanism for them to sit back down, to get rid of some of the old assumptions, to think in new ways and to get this done.
There was much more at stake for them than there had been for the Groton grads of an earlier day. (How many hours do you think they put in doing homework?) College was a gate through which, once, only the favored could pass.
She's more likely doing homework or doing work for one of the environmental causes she values.
He will be doing his homework straight away and will be talking about the impact on pre-season training.
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For a startup, coming to the right price for a domain name requires doing homework and prioritizing marketing strategy.
They're laid out nicely on the "lodging" page of the website, and it's worth doing some homework here before booking.
This was brought out in recent research by economists at the Resolution Foundation (you see I have been doing my homework....) It found that higher unemployment was now having a much greater "chilling effect" on wages than in the past.
Another surprise is that the mistakes, by two eminent Harvard professors, were spotted by a student doing his homework.
By the time they are about seven, children start to lie to avoid doing chores or homework, to get something they want, to protect someone else, and to avoid punishment.
Bullies used to be restricted to the school yard, and the lunch room, and behind the gym, but now you can think your child is locked in their room doing their homework when in fact they could be getting bullied back their on social networking sites.
But the other part of it is it's not just making sure your kids are doing their homework, it's also instilling a thirst for knowledge and excellence.
So, to act without doing your homework and researching is really missing out on a big opportunity to get a pulse on what the market is saying.
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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.
We all prepare studiously for job interviews, doing our homework about our potential employers and compiling short but detailed stories to illustrate our accomplishments, but how in the world do we prep for an off-the-wall interview question?
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