HOMEWORK, FRIEND OR FOE?

Education Week Teacher, may 2016

Homework, Friend or Foe?

By Starr Sackstein on May 22, 2016 5:16 AM

Homework, by definition it is work that is to be completed outside of the school day. Usually it is to be brought in the following day and too often it is assigned uniformly to all.

As a student, I didn’t mind homework and thought of it as a necessary part of my education, seldom questioning the purpose or quality of it. Perhaps as an honors student my whole educational career, it was assumed and completed and never shared with my peers. Continue lendo “HOMEWORK, FRIEND OR FOE?”