One second-grade teacher in Texas wrote a letter to parents to announce she is getting rid of homework for her young students. It has since gone viral. Homework—is it useful for second-graders, or is ...
In 2016, a teacher in Texas made headlines for her unique approach to homework — or lack thereof. Brandy Young, a second-grade teacher at Godley Elementary School in the suburbs of Forth Worth and ...
Brandy Young might be onto something huge. On Tuesday, August 16, the second-grade teacher at Godley Elementary School in Godley, Texas, sent out a letter to parents explaining her no homework-policy.
Second-grade teachers at Taylor Elementary School in Arlington, Va., had an idea: Look at the research on how homework affects young students and do what it says. They read studies done by Harris ...
I’ll be the first to admit that math isn’t my strongest subject. I’d even go as far as saying I’m pretty much innumerate (illiterate but for numbers – not a real word but go with it.) With that being ...
When I toured a public elementary school last spring, one question in particular seemed to make the principal squirm. Do the kindergartners get homework, I asked? Yes, he replied, explaining that it ...
Harris Cooper, professor of psychology at Duke, reviewed more than 60 studies regarding the amount of time a child might do homework to achieve the optimal results. In a paper, published in 2006, he ...
Duff wrote about the challenges of helping her son with his homework. Hilary Duff opened up about the challenges of parenting and admitted that she is not the perfect mother. In fact, her son's ...
Editor’s note: This is an adapted excerpt from You, Your Child, and School: Navigate Your Way to the Best Education (Viking)—the latest book by author and speaker Sir Ken Robinson (co-authored with ...
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