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What Kinds of Homework Seem to be Most Effective?

MindShift

students are justifiably exhausted and nervous from too much homework — even though some international comparisons suggest they’re sitting comfortably at the average. The best answer comes from something called the National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP. Source: OECD, PISA 2012 Database, Table IV.3.48.

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NCLB’s legacy: As the ESSA era begins, have policymakers, educators learned from the past?

The Hechinger Report

Many states either were not tracking them at all or were using widely disparate formulas that made state-by-state comparisons impossible. In a recent report, Education Week dug deep into student proficiency rates on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) from 2003 through 2015. Monday, Sept. Photo: AP Photo/J.

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Scrutiny of colleges that get billions in GI Bill money remains mired in bureaucracy

The Hechinger Report

The most trumpeted new approach focuses around a complaint system and a separate GI Bill comparison tool that flags schools the department determines are in trouble. Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the number of veterans using the benefit has doubled, to nearly 900,000 last year. Photo: Peggy Peattie for The Hechinger Report.

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