The Case Against Homework: How Homework is Hurting Our Children and what We Can Do about it
- ISBN-10
- 030734018X
- ISBN-13
- 9780307340184
- Category
- Family & Relationships
- Pages
- 290
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-08
- Publisher
- Harmony
- Authors
- Sara Bennett, Nancy Kalish
Description
Argues that homework has little to do with academic success, and offers parents strategies and techniques for communicating with teachers and schools to advocate for change. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
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