Homework Help from New York Public Library

gsandler writes “Here is a story from the New Yorker about the New York Public Library‘s homework help service. "When the city’s public libraries announced, last month, the launch of an all-points Web site, homeworkNYC.org, for K-12 students, proponents hailed it as a critical blow to the old “dog ate my homework” excuse. Dakota Scott, a freshman at Bard High School Early College, stood before a group of teachers and librarians at the Donnell Library, on West Fifty-third Street, and demonstrated some of the site’s features… She did not click on a link for “live homework help,” but, had the demonstration occurred between 2 P.M. and 11 P.M., the link would have connected her, via Tutor.com, to any of twelve hundred tutors around the country…"”

January 21, 2006 by Uncategorized 1

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  1. drweb says:
    January 23, 2006 at 10:45 pm

    http://www.homeworknyc.org/
    http://www.homeworknyc.org/ is the site link, for the joint new site.
    For your information only. I didn’t see that in the original posting.
    Best,
    DrWeb

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