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Kelly, settling down's avatar

Having left San Francisco and then Seattle with our children, one of our must-haves in a new town was what we called “feral children.” We are now happily settled in a small town in New Hampshire where children ride bikes, go to the playground, shop at the general store, go to the library and fish in the pond by themselves. The cafe in the next town even offers middle schoolers a discount to encourage them to hang out there! It really is a cultural choice.

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J Mann's avatar

"Then, the study notes that this correlation has gone down, due to a large group of students who don’t show this pattern - they get the homework right by copying it, then get the exam question wrong anyway."

A few years back, I helped my daughter with her molecular biology collegiate homework. I don't have any background in molecular biology, but I could work through most level 100 homework by finding the answer on the internet, then using the textbook to work backward to why that was the answer. It is *amazing* how easy it is to get the answers for specific questions off the internet - I could answer almost every specific question by Googling it. There's really no reason not to get 100% on most homework, but I imagine it takes some discipline to work through *why* a particular answer is correct instead of just copying and pasting it.

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