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Student Fakes Kidnapping to Distract Parents From a Failing Grade
Gabrielle Bluestone · 05/18/13 11:30AMA 'Big Brother'-Esque Snooping Program Tells Professors When Students Skip the E-Reading
Maggie Lange · 04/09/13 02:27PMHomework Is Useless, According to Experts
Max Read · 03/28/12 09:41AMMan Accuses Daughter's Homework of Promoting Islam
Lauri Apple · 09/25/11 05:12PMA concerned dad in Georgia was alarmed to discover that one of his seventh-grade daughter's recent homework assignments featured a letter, written from the perspective of a fictitious Saudi woman named Ahlima, that praised Sharia law and the comfort of black robes. The homework promoted Islam, the dad concluded.
L.A. Schools Give Up on Homework
Hamilton Nolan · 06/27/11 08:18AMHomework is only the worst idea ever. Who was the first jerk who was like, "Hey, got a great idea here, after we made you sit in school all day let's send more school work home with you, so as to infest your every waking hour with dread and help you develop a lifelong loathing of formal education?" I mean come on. Kids hate doing homework. Teachers hate grading homework. Now, students in LA are more or less free to never do homework again.
Columbia Professor Ruder Than Columbia Muggers
Hamilton Nolan · 02/07/11 09:38AMColumbia University: where you can almost taste the class conflict lapping at the edge of campus. According to a credulity-straining (fictional?) report in The Morningside Post, Columbia student Jane Watkins was hurrying up 114th on her way to class when she was rudely mugged. By very polite muggers!
Ten Sundance Movies People Are Talking About
Richard Lawson · 01/21/11 05:19PMFeckless Teens Demand Never-Ending Parade of Paid Assistants
Hamilton Nolan · 11/08/10 01:31PMGlenn Beck Wants You to Do Your Homework
Chris Dignes · 08/31/10 07:39PMThe Articles Everyone Knows They Should Read (But No One Does)
Nick Douglas · 06/03/08 02:29PMInstapaper adds a "read later" button to your browser, effectively allowing you to put off interesting but too-long articles while still giving a hazy sense of accomplishment. So Give Me Something To Read, a feed of the articles most often saved with Instapaper, isn't just a guide to the web's most popular pieces. It's a least-read best-seller list: The stories everyone intends to read but will never finish.