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At a small table between stacks of paperbacks and beneath an enormous map of the world in Minneapolis’ Franklin Library, fifth grader Bintou Dibba concentrates on her homework for the next day.

Teachers in Glasgow are being asked not to set homework using computers so that poorer children do not feel stigmatised. In a bid to ease financial pressures on families Glasgow City Council has ...

Students in a college prealgebra course were required to do all homework on the computer practice/tutorial system which accompanied their textbook. Student evaluations of the computer experience were ...