Homework
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There is a growing trend in education that has been gaining momentum and transforming the way children experience school. The trend is reducing or removing homework from elementary education.
Read MorePlay In The Land of Academics
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Being an after school educator and observing children at play for many years, I noticed how the amount and emphasis on play has changed. Science states play and physical activity represent an important part of education and benefits the growing and active brain. What caused test scores and grades to become more important than the rest of life's activities?
Read MoreHomework Time
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Homework is controversial. It is the one area of conversation that strikes fear in the heart of a school-age professional. It is a topic that is debated and written about quite often. Homework has achieved or is soon to achieve the status of other taboo subjects you never talk to folks about (like politics, money and religion), at least people you still want as friends.
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