Education experts are blasting a new plan by the Los Angeles Unified School District to make homework just 10 percent of a student’s grade, calling it a “travesty.”
Michael Petrilli, executive vice president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute for Advancing Educational Excellence says it takes away one of a teacher’s incentives for students to do their homework.
“It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out how to get kids to learn more: Challenge them, ask them to work long and ask them to work hard. Homework is essential, as is making it count,” Petrilli said.
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