In my recent post, Don’t Prevent Students’ Mistakes, Prepare for Them, I wrote that lesson planning should be more about anticipating students’ errors and preparing to help them learn from those ...

This is the third installment in our series about school in a perfect world. Read previous entries on calendars and content. We asked prominent voices in education—from policy makers and teachers to ...

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Homework is a hot-button issue for both parents and teachers. When we asked the MindShift audience about it, we got a wide range of thoughtful answers. And the results of our poll were pretty evenly ...

Jessica Calarco has received funding from the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, through Grant R305C050041-05 to the University of Pennsylvania and from the Networks, ...

Homework is a middle-class concept. It does not work, I discovered, in working-class schools where I spent my mornings over the past year. Like so many “common sense” ideas about schooling the world ...

Homework can deepen inequities for low-income students at school if teachers judge students’ effort by their families’ involvement. That’s according to a new study in the journal Educational ...

When her 7-year-old daughter asked her for help with her homework, Alyssa Dawson, 36, from Arizona, wasn't expecting the assignment to come back to haunt her. The homework prompt had asked students to ...

Ola Kozak is celebrating. The 11-year-old, who loves music and drawing, expects to have more free time for her hobbies after Poland’s government ordered strict limits on the amount of homework in the ...