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Article: Middle School Students Seek Homework Help From Parents.
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- PR Newswire
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- September 29, 2006
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Great Homework Divide Survey Reveals Parents and 'Tweens'
Increasingly Look to Technology as a Homework Resource
EMERYVILLE, Calif., Sept. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- New research commissioned by LeapFrog Enterprises, Inc. in conjunction with the National Education Association reveals that nearly nine in ten (86 percent) middle school students say that they still turn to their parents for homework help. These and other results of "The Great Homework Divide Survey" illustrate the reliance of tweens -- widely recognized as children ages 9 through 12 -- on regular parent involvement. This finding is contrary to the conventional wisdom that tweens are ...