The school's director passionately lectured parents who demanded homework in the early grades.
They typically work a full-time job by day, attend classes at night — often past 10 p.m. — and devote weekends to the legendarily demanding homework of law school.
That might seem a fairly trivial thing to say about Shalhevet Schwartz, the 14-year-old girl from the Bronx who, in between softball games and the demanding homework at her Jewish high school, studied hard enough to win her division of the National Bible Contest, held last Sunday at Yeshiva University in New York.
See, you don't have to get stuck in that problem -- that might take all of your time: Do a quick effort; make it a worthwhile try, then go onward to less demanding homework.
For tasks that require attention and cognitive demands (ie homework), researchers have found that the mere presence of a mobile phone may be sufficiently distracting to damage attention.
Under the absent-minded guardianship of his eccentric archaeologist uncle Max, Darkus is able to pursue his quest untroubled by the demands of homework and other distractions.
They're demanding our homework, but they've already put us in detention.
Of the 3 million Chinese children who participated in a recent nationwide survey on sleeping patterns, 70 per cent reported getting less than seven hours of sleep each night due to homework demands and the need to be at school by 8 30 each morning.
More disturbing, along with other academic demands, like assigning homework to 5-year-olds, it is crowding out the one thing that truly is vital to their future success: play.
Therefore, a successful homework completion demands self-regulation abilities, and some instruments that assess the self-regulatory components that are present during the execution of homework have been developed.
