In my recent post, Don’t Prevent Students’ Mistakes, Prepare for Them, I wrote that lesson planning should be more about anticipating students’ errors and preparing to help them learn from those ...

The lesson started with a basic worksheet, sight words neatly printed for a practicing five-year-old over the weekend.

I am a parent, and I struggle daily with making sure my daughter does her homework. I can certainly identify with the anxiety Karl Taro Greenfeld describes in his essay “My Daughter’s Homework Is ...

Homework can deepen inequities for low-income students at school if teachers judge students’ effort by their families’ involvement. That’s according to a new study in the journal Educational ...

This is the third installment in our series about school in a perfect world. Read previous entries on calendars and content. We asked prominent voices in education—from policy makers and teachers to ...

Overall, we found the AI-generated lesson plans to be decidedly boring, traditional and uninspiring. If civics teachers used these AI-generated lesson plans as is, students would miss out on active, ...

When my daughter, Khaya, entered kindergarten at a Brooklyn charter school two years ago, I knew her homework would be considerable. Her school, like many others, strongly believes that nightly ...

When her 7-year-old daughter asked her for help with her homework, Alyssa Dawson, 36, from Arizona, wasn't expecting the assignment to come back to haunt her. The homework prompt had asked students to ...

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Homework is a middle-class concept. It does not work, I discovered, in working-class schools where I spent my mornings over the past year. Like so many “common sense” ideas about schooling the world ...