Efforts to use the tech to customize lessons to students' individual interest demonstrate its potential—and the shortcomings.

A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: There would be no more homework. None of the 2,500 students in this district ...

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What started as a 50-point class project has become a published tool for changing how students think about mathematics.

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Some experts worry that less homework could be a problem for math achievement, at a time when test scores nationwide are ...

“Subtraction!” most of the 3rd graders responded in chorus when asked what operation they needed to use to solve a problem. I noted that 100% of students were engaged and I gave the teacher an ...

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Some experts worry that less homework could be a problem for math achievement, at a time when test scores nationwide are ...