Instead of hours of at-home math and grammar worksheets, the students of one New York City elementary school will now have more after school free time thanks to their school's decision to completely eliminate homework—a move many parents aren't so happy about. In a letter sent to parents last … [Read more...]
Should We Ban Homework? One Swedish Town Thinks So
Homework, argh. We all thought once we finished school, we were done with it. And for a while, most of us were. But then we had kids and those kids had homework, so we inevitably began working on homework yet again. The idea of reducing or completely banning homework (or, hey, why not try to at … [Read more...]
Welcome Back Homework Blues
A consistent homework strategy is something we struggle with in our household. We have tried various forms of incentive programs, better service delivery, more robust and detailed calendars and schedules, pens with smelly ink, pencils that look like giraffes, enhanced complementary computer time, … [Read more...]
Homework Horrors
I'd be willing to bet that even back in the Roman Empire parents were throwing up their hands in frustration at their children's unwillingness to take out their wax tablets and practice writing their numerals; and in the ensuing centuries not much has changed, has it?I suppose there have been some … [Read more...]
My Child needs help. I think…
When my daughter was in senior kindergarten, I got a call from her teacher, concerned that while all the other kids were zooming through the leveled little reader books, she wasn't. She was stuck at level 2. How could this be? After all, I was a reading specialist, my husband … [Read more...]