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Extractions: Does your son or daughter have problems turning in homework on time? Is every night a chore? Do you pull your hair out when trying to help your child do school assignments? Do you get notes from little Johnny or Sally's teacher complaining about sloppy handwriting, daydreaming, or fidgeting in his or her seat? Here are some creative tips, innovative strategies, and commons sense approaches to one of today's biggest problems- homework. With teachers giving more homework than ever, we really must be armed for the task! Homework Help: How can I teach my student good study skills? 1. As young as nine or ten, your child should begin keeping an assignment book. In this book, the child needs to write each and every assignment given by his or her teachers. By instilling this habit into your child's daily routine, he or she will learn to be much more responsible. Less homework assignments will be lost or forgotten, and a good habit has been formed when you employ this technique. Be sure to make very specific rules about missing assignments. Also be firm and clear on the punishment that a child will face as a consequence of his or her missing an assignment. 2. Your child and you need to decide on a place that is conducive to study. This should be a quiet place that is well-lit and free from distractions. Once you have decided on a place to study, this should be the only place that your child does his or her homework and studies. There should also be a very specific time for homework to be done. Usually, as soon as the child gets home from school is the time for the homework to be done. This also goes for the kids who are involved in after school activities. Of course, it is a good idea to allow your child the opportunity to have a healthy snack before the work begins.
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Extractions: School Issues Center Archives: ... Teacher's Lounge School Issues Article S C H O O L I S S U E S A R T I C L E Homework, an entrenched tradition in education, is taking a hit from the authors of a controversial new book that proposes ending the practice. In an Education World e-interview, John Buell, co-author of The End of Homework: How Homework Disrupts Families, Overburdens Children, and Limits Learning, states that there is no solid evidence to support the current intensification of homework as a way of improving academic achievement. Included: Buell makes a case for ending homework as we know it! During the early part of the 20th century, society banned homework. Too much homework was considered unhealthful; it deprived kids of outdoor play and sunshine. Then, during the early 1960s, the emphasis on homework intensified as the United States raced to put a man on the moon ahead of the Russians. The trend continued and today, policy makers emphasize homework as a way of helping students achieve academic success. That trend should end, according to John Buell and Etta Kralovec, co-authors of
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Extractions: Provides 40,000 documents supporting 39 main topic areas including the national debate topic. Full text. Must have a Multnomah County Library card to use this service from outside of the Library. Click on "EBSCOhost Web." Remove the check mark next to MasterfilePrimer. Then scroll down to the last database on the page and place a check mark in the box next to TOPICsearch. Press the Continue button to enter the database and begin your search. CQ Researcher
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Extractions: Challenges, Ideas, and Resources by Info Mail Help ... Up This collection of WWW pages , also available in book form from Academic Press (ISBN 0-12-415041-1), is designed for two purposes: as the Instructor's Resource Guide to accompany Computerization and Controversy: Value Conflicts and Social Choices (2nd Ed.), written and edited by Rob Kling, published by Academic Press (to appear, Feb 96) as a general source of information for anyone teaching (or soon to teach) a course in social issues of computerization whether or not they adopt this book for their class. Social Issues of Computing page. The material is organized here into four parts: The Introduction explains the background and motivation of this project. Section I - Challenges and Ideas discusses in detail many of the challenges that we have faced in developing and teaching courses in social issues of computerization, and the ways in which we (and others) have responded to these. Section II - Resources contains listings of related sources of information including other WWW pages, example syllabi, term projects, and in-class and homework exercises. We will add materials to this section as we learn of them. References We welcome comments, suggestions, and additions please use the mail form provided (button at the top of this and other pages).
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Extractions: Michigan.gov Home HAL Home MeL Internet MeL Magazines and eBooks Education About the Education Collection Michigan Education What's New? Hot Topics in Education ... Back to the Education Index No Child Left Behind Page Terrorism Response for Educators General Reform Block Scheduling ... Social Promotion The10th Bracey Report on the Condition of Public Education a summary of national and international education research prepared for Phi Delta Kappan by Gerald Bracey. Alfie Kohn speeches and essays make the well-known education critic's case against educational standards. Annenberg Institute for School Reform Coalition of Essential Schools a school reform organization started by Ted Sizer and based at Brown University. Council for Basic Education provides advocacy and research in support of core curriculum standards. Education ReformA Virtual Library Effective Education collection of articles on education reform issues.
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Extractions: School Issues Center Archives: VIEW ALL ARTICLES Assessment ... Voice of Experience School Issues Article V O I C E O F E X P E R I E N C E This week's Voice of Experience essay was originally published on spiked , a London-based Web site "for those who want to see some change in the real world. " Educator Sue Palmer reflects on the standards (or targets) movement in the United Kingdom. "How had we let statistics become more important than children?" she wonders. Palmer has created a Web site to support her campaign to improve the quality of British primary education by returning decisions about curriculum to the professionals the teachers who know best! You know how sometimes you go along with something because, even though it obviously isn't perfect, it seems to be headed in the right general direction? And as time goes on, it gets less and less perfect, but you carry on being a fellow-traveller because ... well, what else is there to do? And then, things get sillier and sillier until you find yourself waking up in the middle of the night thinking, 'How, in the name of sanity, did I get mixed up in all this? I've got to bail out. Now!' Well, with me it's targets [standards]. The UK government's targets for achievement in literacy and numeracy at age 11. Targets set by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES), and imposed with utter ruthlessness across the land. Targets that have come to dominate everything that happens in English primary schools, from the deployment of staff to the setting of spelling homework.
Extractions: School Issues Center Archives: VIEW ALL ARTICLES Assessment ... Grouping/Scheduling School Issues Article S C H O O L I S S U E S A R T I C L E Does the relentless pace of the school day frustrate you? Do you need to cram more and more into six hours? In his latest book, Time to Teach, Time to Learn , Chip Wood takes a serious look at the frenetic pace of teaching and learning. He offers dozens of suggestions for refocusing on what's really important during the school day. In this exclusive Education World e-interview, Wood talks about his new book and about his ideas for changing the way we spend time in school. It's time time to take another look at the flow of the school day. In Time to Teach, Time to Learn: Changing the Pace of School, just published by the Northeast Foundation for Children Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom Ages 4-14. This week, he took time to share with Education World some of his thoughts and ideas about time in the classroom. Education World: In 1985, you wrote in
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Extractions: Math Solutions Online Newsletter Past Issues Fall 2002, Issue 7 Summer 2002, Issue 6 Spring 2002, Issue 5 Fall 2001, Issue 3 ... Spring 2001, Issue 1 Math Solutions Newsletters Past Issues Issue 28, Fall/Winter 2000-01 So You Have To Teach Math? Find supportive answers for your tough "how-to-teach-math" questions. Issue 27, Spring/Summer 2000 Dates Making Change for 20 Cents The Search for $1.00 Words Ratio, Proportion, and a $10 Bill More About Dates Fourth and fifth graders become more adept at mental calculation in this lesson.
Extractions: A Publication of the Gay Men's Health Crisis Project TEACH stands for Treatment Education Activists Combatting HIV. TEACH was initiated in Philadelphia in 1995 by Julie Davids and Jeff Maskovsky, two members of ACT UP Philadelphia, working in collaboration with two local organizations, Philadelphia FIGHT and We the People Living with HIV/AIDS, Inc. Philadelphia FIGHT brought together people living with HIV and other AIDS activists, clinicians, and researchers to sustain a community research initiative and bring cutting-edge treatment and research information to the impacted communities of Philadelphia. Today it is the largest provider of HIV/AIDS medical care in the region. We the People, a groundbreaking PWA coalition primarily led by people of color, was a central force for effective community mobilization in struggles for housing, benefits and inclusion of people with HIV in decision-making processes. As treatment activists and organizations rooted in the day-to-day experiences of people with HIV in Philadelphia, the initiators of Project TEACH designed the program to move towards the stated goals of people most impacted by HIV in the mid-1990s current and former drug users, people of color, and women. They felt that crucial medical and HIV-specific information was not reaching their communities, and that they did not have meaningful participation in debates and decisions that impacted their communities. They felt that people were dying because they did not have information that would have saved or prolonged their lives.
Extractions: Reprinted from Research Connections in Special Education, Number 8, Spring 2001) Homework has traditionally been considered by educators and parents alike to be an important ingredient in academic success. For students with disabilities, homework is also importantand in many cases, especially difficult. In recent years, researchers have tackled issues related to homework and how to ensure that students with disabilities benefit from it. This issue describes their work. "Access to all aspects of the general education curriculum is emphasized by the 1997 amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Homework is one of these aspects." Marjorie Montague - Researcher University of Miami Homework Practices that Support Students with Disabilities Homework is one aspect of the general education curriculum that has been widely recognized as important to academic success. Teachers have long used homework to provide additional learning time, strengthen study and organizational skills, and in some respects, keep parents informed of their children's progress. Generally, when students with disabilities participate in the general education curriculum, they are expected to complete homework along with their peers. But, just as students with disabilities may need instructional accommodations in the classroom, they may also need homework accommodations. "There is little question that homework has taken on a position of significance in American education," Edward Polloway, researcher at Lynchburg College, says. "At the same time, with the movement towards inclusion of students with disabilities in general education classrooms, the challenges for these students to be successful are increased by the greater reliance on homework as an adjunct to instruction. Without attention to the need for adaptations in homework assignments, research and practice would suggest that we have little reason to be optimistic about the potential success of these students."
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Extractions: Volume Number April 2001 Beyond Class Time End Homework Now by Etta Kralovec and John Buell Educators should stop squeezing time out of family life for the questionable benefits of homework. Parents say that teachers require it. Teachers say that parents demand more of it. Politicians call for grading parents on their ability to help with it. Citizens run for school board seats on no-homework platforms. The National Parent Teacher Association and the National Education Association set guidelines. Some dismiss the current anti-homework outcry as just the latest swing of the opinion pendulum. School boards and politicians dictate homework policies for political rather than pedagogical reasons. Teachers say that they are increasingly uncomfortable about handing over to parents the learning for which teachers are accountable. Welcome to the homework wars. When the school board in Piscataway, New Jersey, voted earlier this fall to limit homework in the elementary grades to half an hour each night and high school homework to two hours a night, the New York Times Homework squeezes family life. All parents have educational agendas for their children. They want to pass on their cultural heritage, religious beliefs, and important life skills. They want to teach their children how to be good citizens and how to share in the responsibilities of running a home. More homework makes parents put their own agendas on hold even as they often struggle to help their children cope with homework assignments. Additionally, families need time to constitute themselves as families. According to a 1998 survey by Public Agenda, nearly 50 percent of parents reported having a serious argument with their children over homework, and 34 percent reported homework as a source of stress and struggle. Parents often have conflicting feelings about homework, viewing it as a way for their children to succeed but also as imposing serious limits on family time.
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Extractions: When it comes to using the Internet for homework assignments, one of the first things you want to do is encourage your son to view Web sites as homework aids, not as homework answers. As appealing as it is to do, he shouldn't simply copy text and download pictures. Although homework assignments vary, as a general rule you should help him understand that it's okay to read and use information from various resources, but direct copying is plagiarism. Admittedly, cutting and pasting can make for some impressive-looking homework. There is an enormous amount of data - pictures, news clippings, journal entries, pre-digested information - waiting to be mined. In the so-called "Information Age," students no longer need to reconstruct the galaxy out of Styrofoam. Instead, they can download spectacular images that a satellite or space station has sent to NASA.
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Extractions: Learning at Home Through Homework An Opportunity for Partnership Between Home and School In the Interests of Student Learning A Background Document to Stimulate Discussion and the Development of an Updated Approach to Homework for Individual Elementary Schools October 1999 Updated: November 2000 Solving Homework Problems Homework is a source of frustration in many schools, and in many households. Yet research suggests that learning at home is one of the most effective methods for parents to assist their children in doing better at school. (Dr. Joyce Epstein, 1995) If the subject of homework has not been reviewed within a particular school for some time, perhaps opportunity exists for a joint committee of teachers and parents to review the current situation within a school and provide recommendations to the administration, staff, parents and school community. A review of the current situation involves honestly asking and answering several key questions as follows: 1. What are the current perceptions of teachers, parents and students regarding homework? 2. Is the schools homework policy clear, and is it being followed by all teachers, students and parents?
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