Checking the Kids' Homework Over the Internet

CHECKING KIDS' HOMEWORK OVER THE INTERNET
[SOURCE: Wall Street Journal, AUTHOR: Christopher Lawton christopher.lawton@wsj.com]
A look at what hosted Web applications can do for families and education. Homework has become the top reason that teenagers are using the Internet on a monthly basis, according to a November 2006 JupiterResearch LLC study of 2,091 teens in the U.S., ages 13 to 17. Social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook ranked fifth in the survey. One concern with this type of close online collaboration is the temptation to help kids too much with their homework. Parents say they must guard against that, because it would be so easy to simply go in and make changes themselves.
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