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Thanks To Yuko Ohigashi | Teachers! Print and share this list with your parents and other professionals! Homework Helpers (Teachers!
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at home!) http://www.homeworkcentral.com (For students: 75,000 links on over 10,000 topics; for teachers: 14,000 lesson plans!) Homeroom (from Princeton Review, integrates technology with education to improve a child's academic performance and test scores). 1-877-8-homeroom or visit http://www.homeroom.comInformation regarding sleep-deprivation among children, affecting school performance and personality : National Sleep Foundation http://www.sleepfoundation.org and National Center on Sleep Disorders Site http://starsleep.nhlbi.nih.gov Note: As teachers/school receive more pressure to reach academic performance levels, more work is being pushed into the teacher's daily teacher load. Many times, this results in an 'overflow' effect, with daily homework assignments being given. The National PTA http://www.pta.org and the National Education Association-NEA http://www.nea.org have set recommended guidelines called the '10 minute' rule--students should be assigned 10 minutes maximum of homework for every grade in school. This means a kindergartener gets 10 minutes, while high-school seniors have no more than 120 minutes total per night.) Other sites to check out regarding homework http://www.myschoolonline.com/defaultpage.htm?/site/9,1876,0-353-38-4080,00.html (Piscataway Township District in NJ limits amount of homework as a policy). The Becaon School http://www.beaconschools.org has eliminated homework entirely for elementary students. To find or order books on this topic, type in "School", "Homework" or the topic you want in the keyword section below: Recommended Reading "The End of Homework, Beacon Press, authors John Buell and Etta Kralovec) Order here:
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