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  1. Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

    She began writing books for young readers over thirty-five years ago and her first two novels - MANDY and THE LAST OF THE REALLY GREAT WHANGDOODLES - remain in print and in high demand. Her other books include the LITTLE BO series, and over 20 picture books, novels and Early Readers co-authored with her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton, including ...

  2. Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

    In Home, the number one New York Times international bestseller, Julie Andrews recounted her difficult childhood and her emergence as an acclaimed singer and performer on the stage. With this second memoir, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years, Andrews picks up the story with her arrival in Hollywood and her phenomenal rise to fame in her ...

  3. Homework: A Parent's Guide to Helping Out Without Freaking Out

    HOMEWORK: A Parent's Guide to Helping Out Without Freaking Out! will guide you through a simple process to find a way to help your child based on which faulty coping pattern your child is using. Most homework books are focused on study techniques. Homework focuses on how parents can be powerful leaders in their kid's education. It answers the ...

  4. 5 Books on Homework (and Helping with Homework!)

    This all-encompassing book goes way beyond just how to handle homework. It's written by the head of a parent education group, so you'll also get great tips on everything from emailing your child's teacher to how to deal with bullying. Basically everything an elementary school parent needs to know! Paperback $10.97.

  5. Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

    With this second memoir, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years, Andrews picks up the story with her arrival in Hollywood and her phenomenal rise to fame in her earliest films -- Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music. Andrews describes her years in the film industry -- from the incredible highs to the challenging lows.

  6. Homework Made Simple: Tips, Tools, and Solutions to Stress-Free

    This book is for any parent who has ever experienced stress, self-doubt, and anxiety over their child's homework. In Homework Made Simple - Tips, Tools, and Solutions for Stress-Free Homework, Dolin, an educator with over 20 years teaching and tutoring experience, reveals the core problems that commonly lead to homework stress.She identifies six key student profiles: Disorganization, Rushing ...

  7. The Case Against Homework

    The Case Against Homework is an important book that takes on the 500-pound gorilla—homework overload—long ignored by educational policy makers. Every parent of a school-age child should buy it and follow the authors' excellent advice in order to protect their children from an educational system gone haywire." —Dan Kindlon, ...

  8. Rethinking Homework, 2nd Edition

    In this updated edition, Cathy Vatterott examines the role homework has played in the culture of schooling over the years; how such factors as family life, the media, and "homework gap" issues based on shifting demographics have affected the homework controversy; and what recent research as well as common sense tell us about the effects of homework on student learning.

  9. Rethinking Homework

    Rethinking Homework. By Alfie Kohn [For a more detailed look at the issues discussed here — including a comprehensive list of citations to relevant research and a discussion of successful efforts to effect change- please see the book The Homework Myth.] After spending most of the day in school, children are typically given additional assignments to be completed at home.

  10. Homework Help and Textbook Solutions

    Search, solve, succeed. Get homework done fast with 10 + million textbook and homework solutions, 24/7 expert help on demand, and math solver for instant solutions to even the toughest math problems. Get your first week for just $6.95!*. Try Bartleby Learn. *After trial, subscription auto-renews monthly at $19.95 USD or then current monthly fee.

  11. How to Do Homework Without Throwing Up

    Trevor Romain, Elizabeth Verdick (Editor) 3.97. 199 ratings36 reviews. "Everybody who goes to school does homework. You are not alone. And they feel just as sick as you do when they have to do it.". Trevor Romain knows how horrible homework can be, and kids will see this right away as they page through this book, grin at the cartoons, and ...

  12. Does Homework Really Help Students Learn?

    Yes, and the stories we hear of kids being stressed out from too much homework—four or five hours of homework a night—are real. That's problematic for physical and mental health and overall well-being. But the research shows that higher-income students get a lot more homework than lower-income kids.

  13. Homework Book: Homework Book for Planning after school study and

    Homework Book: Homework Book for Planning after school study and learning Paperback - July 29, 2019 by Dee Mack (Author) 5.0 5.0 out of 5 stars 1 rating

  14. The Homework Myth

    And then talk about it among themselves. And, ultimately, take that conversation to the principal and the district level. And that may be the crucial thing parents and teachers take away from the book: Challenge the status quo." -San Diego Union Tribune "Like all Kohn's books, The Homework Myth provokes thought and encourages activism.

  15. How to Do Homework: 15 Expert Tips and Tricks · PrepScholar

    Here's how it works: first, set a timer for 25 minutes. This is going to be your work time. During this 25 minutes, all you can do is work on whatever homework assignment you have in front of you. No email, no text messaging, no phone calls—just homework. When that timer goes off, you get to take a 5 minute break.

  16. How to Do Homework (with Pictures)

    When the last problem is done, or when the last sentence is written, don't just slam your book shut and jam your homework into your backpack. Take a short break and return to your homework with fresh eyes to read it over and look for obvious mistakes. Fixing spelling errors, typos, or obvious addition-errors is a great way to give yourself the ...

  17. Textbook Solutions with Expert Answers

    Yes! Textbook solutions are available on Quizlet Plus for $7.99/mo., while Chegg's homework help is advertised to start at $15.95/mo. Quizlet Plus helps you get better grades in less time with smart and efficient premium study modes, access to millions of textbook solutions, and an ad-free experience.

  18. How to Improve Homework for This Year—and Beyond

    A schoolwide effort to reduce homework has led to a renewed focus on ensuring that all work assigned really aids students' learning. I used to pride myself on my high expectations, including my firm commitment to accountability for regular homework completion among my students. But the trauma of Covid-19 has prompted me to both reflect and adapt.

  19. The Homework Machine (The Homework Machine, #1) by Dan Gutman

    Dan Gutman. The unlikely foursome made up of a geek, a class clown, a teacher's pet, and a slacker -- Brenton, Sam "Snick,", Judy and Kelsey, respectively, -- are bound together by one very big secret: the homework machine. Because the machine, code named Belch, is doing their homework for them, they start spending a lot of time together ...

  20. The Homework Machine

    The unlikely foursome made up of a geek, a class clown, a teacher's pet, and a slacker — Brenton, Sam "Snick,", Judy and Kelsey, respectively, — are bound together by one very big secret: the homework machine. Because the machine, code named Belch, is doing their homework for them, they start spending a lot of time together ...

  21. Homework Book: Study Planner for Writing Down Homework Week at a Glance

    Everyone needs a homework book or study planner to help them get their tasks done. Excellent for planning and dividing up subjects into bite-sized chunks to study or revise a bit at a time. Read more Report an issue with this product or seller. Previous slide of product details. Print length. 105 pages. Language.

  22. Homework: A Novel: Livesey, Margot: 9780312420444: Amazon.com: Books

    Homework: A Novel. Paperback - September 8, 2001. Celia Gilchrist believes that she has finally found the right man in Stephen, but when she moves in with Stephen and his young daughter Jenny, things begin to go subtly, menacingly wrong. Money disappears, a sweater is ruined, small, common-place lies escalate into awkward confrontations.

  23. HOMEWORK HELP: Teaching students, parents the skills to succeed

    With a new school year underway, chances are your student is already coming home with homework. So, how can parents help their children ace those assignments? 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays

  24. Everything You Need To Know About Math Homework: A Desk Reference For

    The newly revised and updated Everything You Need to Know About...Homework series provides kids and parents with a quick refresher to 4th through 6th grade curriculum topics. The organization and scope of these concise homework-help guides make them an essential reference resource.