Homework gives students a chance to review and work on ideas covered in class. Especially for disciplines like mathematics, languages, and science, this repetition improves memory retention.

Differentiating content and instruction for each individual learner was once considered the pedagogical holy grail. Yet it could be tiresome. Offering three tiers of worksheets, four centers with ...

If your evenings sometimes look like a scene from a dramatic TV show, crumpled worksheets, a frustrated child threatening to run away, and you counting to ten very slowly while holding back tears, you ...

Much of the homework students are asked to do aligns to the Common Core State Standards, finds a new analysis from the Center for American Progress—but it overwhelmingly focuses on rote learning. In a ...

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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 ...

A second-grade teacher in Texas recently rekindled the annual debate over whether kids spend too much time on homework. The teacher said she did not plan to assign homework this school year because it ...

With the sudden emergence of ChatGPT in our daily lives, concerns are mounting that it could be employed by students to cheat by effortlessly writing assignments and completing homework. Plagiarism ...

Homework has transformed from pen-and-paper to instant online submissions, with AI tools like ChatGPT generating answers in ...