The baby needs feeding, the math sheet is due, and bedtime is in thirty. Here’s a calm, realistic plan to keep homework on ...
Math anxiety grows from stress, culture, and experience, not ability. By changing how we teach, test, and talk about math, we ...
Creating tasks with a focus on students’ autonomy—by providing choices, for example—helps them see the relevance of homework.
Life is made up of many failures. It is important for parents to help children learn how to both expect and tolerate them.
“Younger elementary school children need anywhere from 10-13 hours of sleep per night, while older elementary school children ...
Gentle structure, predictable routines, and a little playfulness can turn the post-holiday wobble into a smoother, more ...
My daughters, “Lily,” and “Leylany,” are in first grade. Leylany is a very bright, motivated, academically inclined kid. She ...
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Why homework became a substitute for bad teaching

Homework used to be a means of practicing what we’d learned. These days, it's the primary instruction method. Somewhere along ...
Starting March 7, the SSA is moving local cases to a national queue. Here’s why experts fear delays and errors.
Teachers at Flushing High School claim the school’s grading system is forcing them to pass students who are actually failing ...
If you want to develop human intelligence, you can’t let students rely on artificial intelligence. Generative AI will transform the world, even if no one is quite sure what the end product will look ...
That question matters more now than ever. According to new data from the Pew Research Center, nearly 70% of American ...