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ASCD Inservice
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Conversation, insight, and resources for educators
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When I Quit Giving Homework
Response to "Do All Students Need Homework?": Over the past several years, I have dramatically reduced the amount of homework I assign. I don't even use the word homework. If I ask students to read outside of class, I simply...
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A Different Kind of Homework
Response to "Do All Students Need Homework?": Several years ago when I began teaching 5th grade, part of the daily homework that my team assigned was for students to complete vocabulary packets. These consisted of workbook pages in which students...
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Teaching Boys
Recent reports show that in the United States and Western industrialized nations, boys are falling behind girls in academic achievement, whether that's measured by reading level, National Honor Society induction, high school dropout rates, or college attendance. Across racial or...
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Do All Students Need Homework?
A parent once asked her daughter's teacher, "If my daughter already knows how to do these math problems, why does she have to do 30 of them?"?to which the teacher replied, "Well, if she already knows how to do them,...
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Even Geniuses Work Hard
What are your students' views about learning and intelligence? Do they think intelligence is "fixed" and that being smart means always being right without having to work too hard? Or do they think intelligence is something they can grow through...
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