Self-proclaimed education experts blame low student performance on everything except themselves. They often cite the lack of funds and parental involvement, or social factors, for the decline in American public education.
ALTERNATIVES FOR HOMEWORK?
I teach at a public middle school that is predominantly black in inner-city Houston, Texas. Recently, I suggested to our school’s dean of instruction that we require our seventh grade students to turn in all homework typed. Even though many of our students do not have typewriters or computers at home, we could make the...
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