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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. Source: Met Life Survey of the American Teacher, The Homework Experience, 2007. (LA Well, here goes. LA Johnson/NPR). Caveats abound here. Not necessarily.

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

The Hechinger Report

President Bush promotes his “No Child Left Behind” education agenda during a visit to Kirkpatrick Elementary School in Nashville, Tenn., Many states either were not tracking them at all or were using widely disparate formulas that made state-by-state comparisons impossible. Monday, Sept. Photo: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite.

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Kids struggle to read when schools leave phonics out

The Hechinger Report

The problem is that many American elementary schools aren’t doing that. ” But this research hasn’t made its way into many elementary school classrooms. So in 2015, he assigned Harper to visit all of Bethlehem’s elementary schools and find out how children were being taught to read.

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