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Why homework became a substitute for bad teaching

Homework used to be a means of practicing what we’d learned. These days, it's the primary instruction method. Somewhere along the line, teachers stopped teaching full lessons in class and started ...
Includes updates and/or revisions. The anxiety of high school juniors—and their parents—over taking college-entrance exams is creating a market force for the test-preparation industry. Dozens of ...
It’s 3:30 on a Wednesday afternoon in north suburban Glencoe, one of the wealthiest towns in the U.S. The quiet, brick-lined streets of the business district are about to get louder. Two blocks away, ...
Readers argue both sides, citing Finland, the value of repetition, education inequity and more. To the Editor: Re “The Movement to End Homework Is Wrong,” by Jay Caspian Kang (Sunday Opinion, July 31) ...
Most of us had a complicated relationship with homework during our time in school, as evidenced by the classic “the dog ate my homework” trope. Sure, it’s absurd, but the fact is, we would’ve gladly ...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — As students settle into the school year, many families are looking for ways to support their children’s homework and study habits. The Mandel Public Library of West Palm Beach ...
From kindergartners to college students, they would all tell you the same thing: we need less homework. Met by the rolling eyes of teachers and parents, the call to less or no homework at all is often ...
How much time does your teen spend doing busy school work each night? According to a recent study, if it's more than one hour… then it's too much. A study from Spain published in the Journal of ...
Chelsea was in 10th grade the first time I told her directly to stop doing her homework and get some sleep. I had been working with her since she was in middle school, treating her anxiety disorder.