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"Homework is an institution roundly disliked by all who participate in it… Does this mean that we would be better off getting rid of it?"
— In Comment this week, Louis Menand asks how much homework matters, and whether we would be better off getting rid of it: http://nyr.kr/SM7lk6 -
Margaret Talbot with the case against single-sex classrooms: http://nyr.kr/Oa4TwA
What has changed since the nineties is the notion of who single-sex education is supposed to help most. In the nineties, it was girls. … But that did not turn out to be the long-term problem.
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"Holocaust metaphors are rarely a good idea."
