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Instead of assuming that homework should be a given, or that it allegedly benefits children, I’ve spent the last few years reviewing the available research and talking to parents, teachers and students. My findings can be summarized in seven words: Homework is all pain and no gain.
The pain is obvious to kids but isn’t always taken seriously by adults. Backpacks stuffed with assignments leave students exhausted, frustrated, less interested in intellectual pursuits and lacking time to do things they enjoy. “Most of what homework is doing,” says literacy expert Harvey Daniels, “is driving kids away from learning.”
We parents, meanwhile, turn into nags. After being away from our children all day, the first words out of our mouths, sadly, may be: “So, did you finish your homework?” One mother told me it permanently damaged her relationship with her son because it forced her to be an enforcer rather than a mom.
The surprising news, though, is that there are virtually no pros to balance the cons. Even if you regard grades or test scores as good measures of learning, which I do not, doing homework has no statistical relationship to achievement in elementary school. In high school, some studies do find a correlation between homework and test scores, but it’s usually fairly small. And in any case, it’s far from clear that the former causes the latter. And if you’re wondering, not a single study has ever supported the folk wisdom that homework teaches good work habits or develops positive character traits such as self-discipline, responsibility or independence."
Alfie Kohn, The Case Against Homework (via barbieandken)
More homework hasn’t improved test scores nor made our kids smarter. It just makes them hate school more. Kids are in school 7-8 hours/day, and then we give them 2+ hours of homework. That’s a 10-hour day. It’s ridic.
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This so much.
Homework is tedious and hardly encourages critical thinking skills.
Not to mention it often takes away from precious sleep they need.
I would help my cousin with math homework, and she was doing things in 8th grade that I literally was doing in 10th, and she was so ill prepared for it.
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The opening line of the quote is kind of telling… maybe what it’s accomplishing is normalizing the idea of working multiple jobs, of a life devoid of the concept of “free time”.
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She has the most beautiful smile in the Zodiac, and it’s because every single aspect of her is thoroughly genuine. There is nothing fake or dishonest about the Sagittarian girl. She is bold and daring, and her words are as straight as the proverbial arrow that sits in the Archer’s quiver. She will…
African American Female Biopics:
Diana Ross as Billie Holiday in “Lady Sings The Blues”
Lynn Whitfield as Josephine Baker in “The Story of Josephine Baker”
Angela Bassett as Tina Turner in “What’s Love Got To Do With It”
Halle Berry as Dorothy Dandridge in “Introducing Dorothy Dandridge”
Angela Bassett was all too sexy in What’s Love Got To Do With It. See them muscles rippling when she performed Rolling!
you never really
know someone
until you’ve read
what they write
at 3 am when
loneliness
consumes them
but does not
destroy them
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This is bad governance. CPS has consistently undermined school communities and sabotaged teachers and parents. Their actions have had a horrible domino effect. More than 40,000 students will lose at least three to six months of learning because of the Board’s actions. Because many of them will now have to travel into new neighborhoods to continue their schooling, some will be victims of bullying, physical assault and other forms of violence. Board members are wishing for a world that does not exist and have ignored the reality of the world we live in today. Who on the Board will be held responsible? Who at City Hall will be held responsible?"
Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis commenting on today’s news that the Board of Education has voted to close 50 Chicago public schools.
While only around 40 percent of children in Chicago are black are Latino, 90 percent of children whose schools will be shuttered are black or Latino.
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fuck this country. fuck this country. FUCK THIS COUNTRY
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Rahm Emanuel can go to Hell
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But Obama is telling Black students they don’t value education, while his mans and them do shit like this.
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Chris Mitchell Potography
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