I don't care if you call that homework or not, but it is important, and we ought to give students all the time they need to do it.
Rosenworcel frequently draws attention to this discrepancy, which she calls "the homework gap".
Rosenworcel frequently draws attention to this discrepancy, which she calls "the homework gap". She has pointed to Pinconning, Michigan, for example, a town with a population of about 1,300, where parents reportedly drive their kids to a fast food franchise so they can get online and do their homework.
Note that, in contrast to the diffusion activity, this homework called for no explicit calculations.
They already called the "Homework Hotline" at school and looked for the class assignment on the teacher's webpage.
Call it homework for Mission Cantina, the Mexican restaurant they're opening in three weeks on the Lower East Side.
(At YES Prep, for example, all teachers are assigned a cellphone to answer any student call for homework assistance until 9 p.m).
In states from Florida to California, elementary schools are experimenting with no homework, or what some call "reform homework" policies, often with considerable resistance from parents — and sometimes teachers.
In primary schools, it's a waste of children's and teachers' time Not many children will follow the proceedings of the teacher unions' conferences, but one motion might interest them: a call for homework to be abolished in primary schools.
