assignments

What should American college students do to cope with their heavy reading assignments?

Students are e-mailing their professors to receive and discuss their classroom assignments and to submit them.

As universities go digital, students are complaining of a new hit to their finances that's replacing—and sometimes joining—expensive textbooks: pricey online access codes that are required to complete coursework and submit assignments.

David Anderson, the executive director of higher education with the Association of American Publishers, told BuzzFeed News. "It helps students understand in a way that you can't do with print homework assignments."

Many of the assignments and rules teachers come up with, often because they are pressured by their administrators, treat pleasure and joy as the enemies of competence and responsibility.

Research now shows that regular quizzes, short essays, and other assignments over the course of a term better enhance learning and retention.

She didn't hand in her first two assignments for chemistry, which started her out in the class with a failing grade.

Workers have the legal rights to refuse certain unsafe work assignments under two federal laws: the Occupational Safety and Health Act and the National Labor Relations Act.

Be sure to attend all classes and leave enough time to finish assignments and prepare well for examinations.

If the district finds homework to be unimportant to its students'academic achievement, it should move to reduce or eliminate the assignments, not make them count for almost nothing.