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noting page numbers to make sure each student had read at least 20 pages the night before.

But fans of the reading workshop say that assigning books leaves many children bored or

unable to understand the texts.

they’re actually interacting

every kid in my classroom is engaged

Reading Workshop

10-15 minute mini-lesson

powerful way

5 or 6 different students

hold individual reading conferences

you will still need another formal assessment system such as running records

my class had a 95% passing rate on our End-of-Grade Reading test

Kindergarten

is now academic, “the new first grade

forced to sit for hours

kids are considered failures if they

can’t read by the time they enter first grade

They aren’t developmentally ready

results

to lobby for more funding for

preschool

preschoo

preschools

turned into academic enterprises too

Standards can lead to teaching of skills in ways that are not effective or meaningful, to the narrowing of the curriculum, and to less time for play and hands-on learning experiences that are important foundations for later school success.

By her own account, she came to writing books in a meandering way. Born in Philadelphia but raised in Florida, she spent her 20s working jobs at Disney World, Circus World and a campground, harboring secret ambitions to be an author.

“It wasn’t until my fifth or sixth book where I realized I’m trying to do the same thing in every story I tell, which is bring everybody together in the same room,” Ms. DiCamillo said. “That’s the same thing that I want here: to get as many different people into the room as I can. I don’t know that I will resonate with a particular group of kids, but I want to get as many kids and as many adults together reading as I can.”

Students need the practice. I can't cover the curriculum unless I give homework. It teaches responsibility.

The research provides little or no support for number one. What little support it does give could be accomplished by giving them time in class to practic

So if we just made up this number, how is that "data-driven"? Perhaps we need to sit down and rethink this and decide if that's truly the best number.

Data-Driven Schools: Homework

What kind of research did we do to determine that 120 minutes was the appropriate and most effective amount of homework each night?

if we did that, then we'd probably also want to look at the research on the effectiveness of homework in general

research shows no support for homework at all at the elementary level

at the high school level there is only a weak correlation between homework and increased test scores

There was no relationship whatsoever between time spent on homework and course grade, and “no substantive difference in grades between students who complete homework and those who do not.”

even most of what I've read in support of homework tends to show it having a relatively small effect on student "achievement"

So why do we assign homework?

Students need the practice. I can't cover the curriculum unless I give homework. It teaches responsibility

The research provides little or no support for number one.

Instead of assigning homework (and assigning students a "second shift") in order to cover the curriculum, we should change the curriculum.

I would suggest that giving them meaningful and important things to do might teach them responsibility better than assigning homework of dubious value.

any homework we assign should be justified.

Yes, and it was statistically significant but “very modest”: