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by jackcosgrove
835 days ago
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Education fads come and go, and if you wait long enough you'll notice that what's old is new again. It's a great career-building tool: just identify where you are in the pendulum's path and see where it will move next. Make a prediction from that and you're a visionary, a leader. Many education administrators and theorists have made their names like this. To be honest recurring cycles happen in tech too, and people play the same game. |
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I remember about 20 years ago I would read a lot of think-pieces in Time, The Atlantic, and other such magazines about how kids were doing too little homework, and how the US is falling behind other nations in academic achievement, and how one caused the other.
Now the think pieces are all about how there is too much homework and we're suffocating children under the burden.
For what it's worth, I have an elementary school student, and I like that she has 10-15 minutes of homework most nights. It gives me a chance to keep up with what she's learning about.