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The studying that middle school and high school students do after the dismissal bell rings is either an unreasonable burden or a crucial activity that needs beefing up. Which is it? Do American students have too much homework or too little? Neither, I’d say. We ought to be asking a different question altogether. What should matter to parents and educators is this: How effectively do children’s after-school assignments advance learning?

The quantity of students’ homework is a lot less important than its quality. And evidence suggests that as of now, homework isn’t making the grade. Although surveys show that the amount of time our children spend on homework has risen over the last three decades, American students are mired in the middle of international academic rankings: 17th in reading, 23rd in science and 31st in math, according to results from the Program for International Student Assessment released last December.

“Spaced repetition” is one example of the kind of evidence-based techniques that researchers have found have a positive impact on learning. Here’s how it works: instead of concentrating the study of information in single blocks, as many homework assignments currently do — reading about, say, the Civil War one evening and Reconstruction the next — learners encounter the same material in briefer sessions spread over a longer period of time. With this approach, students are re-exposed to information about the Civil War and Reconstruction throughout the semester.

 Instead of spending time on ice breakers or excessive time on procedures, we spend time on learning to ask better questions.   

Scaffolding: Some students have a really hard time with questioning strategies.  So, initially I give sentence stems.  At first this was really hard for me.  I thought that students would naturally ask questions and grow through accessing prior knowledge.  I quickly realized that language acquisition had often been a barrier in asking better questions.  So, sentence stems and sample questions became a way that ELL students could modify questions and access the language. 

En estos ensayos, mostraré que la institucionalización de los valores conduce inevitablemente a la contaminación física, a la polarización social y a la impotencia psicológica: tres dimensiones en un proceso de degradación global y de miseria modernizada. Explicaré cómo este proceso de degradación se acelera cuando unas necesidades no materiales son transformadas en demanda de bienes; cuando a la salud, a la educación, a la movilidad personal, al bienestar o a la cura psicológica se las define como el resultado de servicios o de "tratamientos". Hago esto porque creo que la mayoría de las investigaciones actualmente en curso acerca del futuro tienden aabogar por incrementos aún mayores en la institucionalización de valores y que debemos definir algunas condiciones que permitieran que ocurriese precisamente lo contrario. Precisamos investigaciones sobre el posible uso de la tecnología para crear instituciones que atiendan a la acción recíproca, creativa y autónoma entre personas y a la emergencia de valores que los tecnócratas no puedan controlar sustancialmente. Necesitamos investigación en líneas generales para la futurología actual.La sociedad desescolarizada. Ivan Illich

ere’s how it works. The instructor attaches a blank piece of paper to the back of every exam. Students may write on that sheet any exam questions they couldn’t answer or weren’t sure they answered correctly. Students then take this piece of paper with them and look up the correct answers. They can use any resource at their disposal short of asking the instructor. At the start of the next class session, they turn in their set of corrected answers which the instructor re-attaches to their original exam. Both sets of answers are graded. If students missed the question on the exam but answered it correctly on the attached sheet, half the credit lost for the wrong answer is recovered.

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re-design itself at an ever increasing rate,

Research examining student achievement in block-scheduled schools compared to traditional schools showed mixed and inconclusive Results

Most research about block scheduling and classroom instruction, as with research on school climate, used student, teacher, and parent questionnaires and surveys.

husiasm for MOOCs seems to follow the trajectory of New Year’s diet resolutions. More than half of the students who enrolled in MIT’s circuits course didn’t even bother to complete the first assignment, and just 7,157 students (or less than 5 percent of enrollees) passed the course.

More than half of the students who enrolled in MIT’s circuits course didn’t even bother to complete the first assignment, and just 7,157 students (or less than 5 percent of enrollees) passed the course.

“Responders Are Taught, Not Born”

We contend that student writers will see greater value in peer response if they develop tools that allow them to participate more actively in the feedback process. With teaching suggestions like those above, writers can learn how to re-flect on their experiences with peer response. They can also learn to identify their needs as writers and how to ask questions that will solicit the feedback they need.

We like to limit each mock session to no more than seven minutes of back and forth between respondent and writer.