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Do Students Have Too Much Homework?, Thomas Loveless
Do Students Have Too Much Homework?, Thomas Loveless
Brookings Scholar Lecture Series
The popular press and best-selling books frequently decry the heavy homework burden of American students. But do students really have too much homework? Has the homework load changed much over the past two decades? Data from several sources are examined to explore the amount of homework assigned to American students and to place that burden in an historical context.
The Difficulties Of Teaching Non-Western Literature In The United States, Ian Barnard
The Difficulties Of Teaching Non-Western Literature In The United States, Ian Barnard
English Faculty Articles and Research
"My goal in this article is to build on Priya Kandaswamy’s discussion of students’ response to difference in Radical Teacher #80 by unfolding the pitfalls of teaching and responding to “non-Western” literature in the United States as embodied in my own experience teaching non-Western literature to a group of racially and ethnically diverse, mainly working-class students at a large urban comprehensive public university."