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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Homework improves learning:

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Why is FCPS abandoning a practice which has been proven to improve student's learning?  (it is not difficult to figure out)[/quote]

It has been proven to NOT improve learning.[/quote]
The general consensus is that homework does correlate with achievement in middle and high school. Results are less clear for elementary, however, that may be influenced by the fact that struggling readers are assigned additional homework.[/quote]

Makes zero sense to me how extra practice could NOT be beneficial for ES kids. There must be some other things going on with these studies as they just does not make sense. [/quote]

It’s not beneficial if they are doing the extra practice incorrectly. [/quote]

Is it likely that they would do every single homework assignment incorrectly?

Is that really your objection or are you just trolling?  Do you have kids?  Have you ever done anything yourself in your own life?  Some of it will be wrong and some of it will be right.  That's how you learn.  [/quote]

It wasn’t an objection, but rather a reply to the question that extra practice could “NOT be beneficial”.

For example, if a third grader has 15 division problems for hw and does all 15 incorrectly (which is very realistic if they don’t understand the process), then that student has just further cemented their misunderstanding and an incorrect way of doing the math. [/quote]
DP Teachers can provide an answer key which alerts students (and family/others at home) that the student is on the wrong track. Also, for third grade division, much of the homework could be checked with flashcards, assuming the school provided these to students. [/quote]

Or they just copy down the answers and show their parents and teachers that they got everything correct… it happens all the time.[/quote]
In that case, homework does those students no good or harm. But, other students will do the homework and benefit. So, on net, it's beneficial to assign homework to the class.[/quote]

Or the parents could buy a workbook, that works too.[/quote]

Requiring parents to buy to pay for reinforcement is a good way to ensure working class kids do not get a fair break.

Assigning homework, correcting it, returned the corrected version, but not having homework count much for the final grade is how to help bright diligent working class kids get to college.

Mind, the FCPS School Board is "no action, talk only" about having a level playing field, so we can be confident that will not happen here.  Sigh. [/quote]

Teachers already work too much, they’ll not going to correct/grade optional work.[/quote]
What job requirements/responsibilities should be scaled back so that teachers do have the time to review homework? [/quote]

When I was in school teacher would walk around the room to spot check we all did it then we would run down the answers and go over a few examples in class. It was a normal follow up to the prior day’s lesson and handled during the day. [/quote]

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