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Off-Ramp

LAUSD Limits Homework - should kids and parents cheer or moan?

By Off-Ramp Staff
Published Jul 2, 2011
A teacher points to the blackboard at Belvedere Elementary School as students raise their hands.
A teacher points to the blackboard at Belvedere Elementary School as students raise their hands.
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LA Public Library Herald-Examiner Collection
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LAUSD Limits Homework - should kids and parents cheer or moan?
Off-Ramp host John Rabe and LA Times reporter Howard Blume go to Eagle Rock Elementary to debate the new LAUSD mandate that homework can make up only 10% of a student's grade.

Off-Ramp host John Rabe and LA Times reporter Howard Blume go to Eagle Rock Elementary to debate the new LAUSD mandate that homework can make up only 10% of a student's grade.

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