BAZETTA TWP., Ohio (WKBN) – Homework is a pain for kids to do and a pain for teachers to grade. One Ohio teacher is skipping out on the after-school activity altogether. Kaylee Kalman teaches second ...
One second-grade teacher in Texas wrote a letter to parents to announce she is getting rid of homework for her young students. It has since gone viral. Homework—is it useful for second-graders, or is ...
In 2016, a teacher in Texas made headlines for her unique approach to homework — or lack thereof. Brandy Young, a second-grade teacher at Godley Elementary School in the suburbs of Forth Worth and ...
Brandy Young might be onto something huge. On Tuesday, August 16, the second-grade teacher at Godley Elementary School in Godley, Texas, sent out a letter to parents explaining her no homework-policy.
Second-grade teachers at Taylor Elementary School in Arlington, Va., had an idea: Look at the research on how homework affects young students and do what it says. They read studies done by Harris ...
A Texas teacher's note to parents about her newly implemented "no formal homework policy" in her second-grade class went viral last week, opening up the floodgates for parents, teachers and school ...
Harris Cooper, professor of psychology at Duke, reviewed more than 60 studies regarding the amount of time a child might do homework to achieve the optimal results. In a paper, published in 2006, he ...
Amid the debate about paring back standardized testing, Indiana is floating an unusual proposal. It would shift the state’s required 3rd grade reading test to a group of students who currently don’t ...