... we ran a feature story on whether schools should assign homework, we're still receiving letters to the editor and new ... so much interest among readers, we asked Brant if the policy was still in place, how it was going, and whether she ... below grade level. Every one of them has risen at least 1.2 levels in growth. We've also had kids who grew 10 and 11 ...
... often in American public schools: The principal got rid of homework. This past September, Stephanie Brant, principal of ... similar struggles and ultimately helped get the homework policy in her district changed, limiting homework on weekends ... them something they can use on Mars." Read a January 2014 update. Are You Down With or Done With Homework? ...
... two years. The public paid little attention — until the 2014–15 deadline for standardized testing of the new ... it near impossible to help their children do their homework. And it's a major modification for teachers, too. ... fight," says Rick Hess, Ed.M.'90, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. "On the ...
... nation’s students, they regularly fill a third of U.S. News and World Report ’s top 100 high schools. Or are we ... are 78 in Massachusetts, to traditional public schools’ 1,934. As Finn told me, “Most Americans still have no idea ... chartering” that resulted in a lasting hangover. A 2014 study from the Center for Research on Education Outcomes ...