SOME CANADIAN SCHOOLS TO BAN HOMEWORK: College de Saint-Ambroise, a school of 339 students in the provinces Saguenay region, has introduced a near-complete ban on homework. Every class from Grade 1 to 6 will take part in the one-year pilot project. Marie-Eve Desrosiers, a spokeswoman with the Jonquiere School Board, said the goal is to ease pressure on parents and even improve student performance. College de Saint-Ambroise wont be the first school to try such an experiment. An elementary school in Barrie, Ont. tried something similar in 2008 and found that student grades went up as a result. In Europe, French President Francois Hollande floated the idea of a countrywide ban in 2012, while schools in Germany have also done away with homework. Etta Kralovec, a professor at the University of Arizona and the author of The End of Homework, said elementary school students are often so busy with homework they dont have enough time to pursue extra-curricular activities, or simply play. The research is very clear that theres no benefit at the elementary school level, Kralovec said.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 08:01:25 +0000
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