Piscataway Schools Put Limits on Homework Load
In Piscataway New Jersey the school board adopted a policy capping homework at two hours nightly for high schoolers and limiting to 30 minutes for grades one to three. The move aims to reduce student stress while preserving meaningful assignments. Educational experts praise the policy as realistic and focus driven.
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Piscataway
N.J
Bellew
Linda Bellew
Piscataway High School
University of Michigan
U.S. Department of Education
Harris Cooper, Au
Thor
Cooper
University of Missouri
PTA
National Education Association
Joyce L. Epstein
Johns Hopkins University
Center On
Baltimore
Ronald E. Bolandi
Joan Greenwald
Piscataway Middle School
Yugoslav president visits Bosnia sparks cautious diplomacy
Yugoslav president Vojislav Kostunica met Bosnia's multiethnic leaders in Sarajevo after visiting Trebinje for a Serb poet’s reburial. The trip, his first to Bosnia since independence, drew criticism from Bosnian Croats and Muslims worried about Serb nationalism and timing ahead of elections. International officials pressed for normal relations and cooperation with the Hague tribunal amid lingering wartime atrocities.
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Sarajevo
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Yugoslavia
Nia
Vojislav Kostunica
Bosnia
Trebinje
Kostunica
Dayton
Wolfgang Petritsch
U.N
Ante Jelavic
Jelavic
Drazenko Primorac
Doug Coffman
Hague
Netherlands
Gunmen abduct two Colombian lawyers in separate incidents
Suspected paramilitary gunmen kidnapped Congresswoman Zulema Jattin while traveling with her father near Monteria, and a senator was abducted elsewhere. The attacks heighten alarm as Colombia faces increasing lawlessness with rebels and right‑wing groups vying for control while security erodes nationwide.
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Colombia
Antanas Mockus
Zulema Jattin
Parliament
Peace Commission
Cordoba
Luis Fernando Velasco
Velasco
Associated Press
Jattin
Monteria
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