History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
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The great academic implosion: A 10% homework cap for teachers -- LAUSD gets punked!
- 06-29-2011
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Blog by Larry Strauss/Huffington Post
The school district in which I teach (the second largest in the U.S.) recently announced a new policy limiting a student's homework liability to 10% of his or her term grade. I understand the good-hearted intentions. I know what life is like for many of our students in this city. They go to jobs after school and on weekends, sometimes exceeding the legal limits of child labor laws to earn money on which their family depends; they live in overcrowded apartments with no quiet place to work or even think or in group homes or cars or the streets or they bounce around from place to place, they are the caretakers of younger siblings and sick parents and grandparents and they live in neighborhoods too dangerous to travel in after dark from school or the local library. (more...)
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