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.
The new policy, to be implemented on July 1 for all students in kindergarten through grade 12 in the district’s 885 schools, will impose the 10 percent limit to try to compensate for those who may be getting less academic help at home
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