What's Your Position on Homework?

The Great Homework Debate...to give it - or not to give it - is always a popular question in interviews and a frequent conversation among teachers and parents, not to mention students!

Cathy Vatterott's recent book on this topic, Rethinking Homework, goes a long way in engaging this debate openly and fairly aggressively. Here is a thoughtful review of her book by educator Jason Flom.

The questions we should always ask (as parents and educators) is this: is the homework meaningful?