Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Learning Environments Typical M.S. in-class content and homework?

To clarify, there IS math homework, but very little in the other subjects.

According to my wife, there has been a strong move away from homework. The parents push back. The kids are doing athletics of various sorts and don't have time. Next year, supposedly, homework won't count at all for grades (i.e. few if any consequences for kids who don't do it).

As a result, non-math teachers can't expect kids to do much, if any work outside of class, and so classroom time is spent on what seems to me to be stuff that could be done as homework.

That said, I'm sympathetic to some of the arguments against homework at this age, and to the idea of teaching study habits within class.

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