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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't have a problem with the new policy per se, I'm just hoping that they will get rid of some of all the little busywork assignments, because more isn't always better. Countries that have high stakes stressful exams don't also have tons of little stress crappy things that add up along the way.[/quote]

I don’t think we want to emulate those countries.  And your method doesn’t track with research on learning.[/quote]

I don't think we should emulate those countries, I just don't want the worst of both worlds.
Research on learning says you should prompt students on a topic when they're close to forgetting it, but somehow a lot of US education has decided kids don't need to know anything, so they have a lot of assignments that aren't even conducive to learning. Like the "teacher will check off the HW for completeness but not grade it," which stresses my kids out whenever they're out sick (and that's actually how they got some 50%'s, because the teacher then forgets about this.) Let's maybe take out some of that busywork.[/quote]

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