No Homework Left Behind
Author: Garbe, G., Guy, D.
Publisher: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
Publication Date: 2006, Summer (online only version)
Journal: Educational Leadership
Journal Volume: 63
Full text available online at: http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational_leadership/summer06/vol63/num09/No_Homework_Left_Behind.aspx
Abstract (written by WestEd)
Over a third of the students at Richland Middle School in Wisconsin were regularly not completing their homework, so the school took action. It listened to the problems students were having in finishing homework, parents were having in supervising and helping their students with homework, and teachers were having in making homework a more productive part of student learning. As a result, the school established the Richland Middle School Learning Lab after-school program. In conjunction, it improved its late homework policies. Over the course of a year, they experienced a 76% decrease in missing assignments and a decrease in the number of students receiving failing grades. The article describes the process of setting up the lab and changing school attitudes.
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