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Does assigning homework help?

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Alexandria Neason

Homework is an age-old tradition, but could inequitably penalize students in poverty. Some educators are weighing whether to redesign it or stop assigning it.

When Christina Torres started teaching in 2009, she handed out nightly homework assignments-just as her own teachers had done. Her policy was not unlike those used in other classrooms in her school at the time or in classrooms all over the country.

But her students at Animo Ralph Bunche Charter High School in Los Angeles, about 95 percent of whom received free or reduced lunch, often didn't do the assignments. In the first semester, she estimates that just 20 to 30 percent completed their homework. Many said they had simply forgotten about it.

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Alexandria Neason Homework is an age-old tradition, but could inequitably penalize students in poverty. Some educators are weighing whether to redesign it or stop assigning it. When Christina Torres started teaching in 2009, she handed out nightly homework assignments-just as her own teachers had done.

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~ to collaborate
~ to communicate
~to share with parents, students other staff members
~to be creative

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at a glance

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Staying well.

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Cover illustration by Julie Flett, a Cree-Métis illustrator. From the Governor General's Award-winning book When We Were Alone (HighWater Press).

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Truth and Reconciliation in the Schools | Education Canada Magazine

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From provincial ministries to individual teachers, we all need to be thinking about how we can "Indigenize" education: incorporate respectful, accurate information and experience about Indigenous history, world view, ways of teaching and learning, and contemporary issues into all levels of schooling.

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So much fun!

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