A new survey conducted by the EdWeek Research Center suggests that the amount of out-of-school coursework assigned to students has fallen, in many cases because students refuse to do it, or because ...
Seth Gilbert, 12, had nearly an hour’s worth of homework each day, and he expects more this school year in seventh grade. MCT photo CHICAGO — Jami Dehn prepped homework packets to send home with her ...
Some schools are eliminating homework, citing research showing it doesn’t do much to boost achievement. But maybe teachers just need to assign a different kind of homework. In 2016, a second-grade ...
CHICAGO — Jami Dehn prepped homework packets to send home with her class of third-graders every Friday afternoon last year, carefully charting how much they should read, write in cursive and practice ...