The homework debate: The French weigh in
You know things are serious when the French get involved. First, it was obesity. Why can the French eat cheese and drink wine and not get fat? (The answer: Lot...
Tag: homework
Two easy ways to increase student accountability
Often I find myself feeling like I’m chasing my students down and making sure they take care of their business, rather than the other way around. It̵...
Homework: Time, not assignments?
The homework question — how much to assign? how to encourage students to do homework? — continues to intrigue me. A recent blog post in The Washin...
Group grades: Another way to increase homework
For a long time now, I’ve thought about ways to increase homework completion. The Nightly Text was fairly successful, but still, homework decreased preci...
The Nightly Text as formative assessment
My experiment with the Nightly Text, this unit’s ongoing homework assignment, has been a major success. Reading’s up, homework’s up, and the ...