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michael phelps drops by with his story. for some kids it s a dream come true no homework. a new wave in education, school districts and parents embracing an anti-homework movement because their kids are trapped in a meaningful cycle of busy work or too much pressure or learning for the sake of standards testing. high school english teacher is the 2010 teacher the year. the school board in new jersey will eliminate homework to ten minutes and ban assignments on weekend, vacations. the next minute our kids are over stressed. which is it? a little bit of both. i think the real crux of this conversation is what are we asking students to do when they are not in school. so often what we re asking students to do outside of school are tasks that are isolated from teachers. what we really need to do that some teachers are doing they are flipping around what you normally would see during the cool day like a lecture and teachers are watching those online at night. in school they are w
scandal turned his life into a capitol hill side show. here s a look. i had hoped to be able to continue the work that the citizens of my district elected me to do. the distraction that i have created has made that impossible. so today, i am announcing my resignation from congress. and this morning we re getting a look at how it all went down. new york lawmaker steve israel said weiner called him while at a congressional picnic at the white house and told him his plans to resign. he had already made the decision to resign and he spoke with me and he said that he wanted to deliver that news to leader pelosi and when he delivered the news to me and to leader pelosi, he did talk about the fact that it is important now to go back to the issues and the challenges that this country faces. trying to resign with i some dignity but his news conference was more like a circus. mary snow joins us this morning. you were there yesterday. almost appropriate end to this entire scanda