{"id":1793,"date":"2017-04-05T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T08:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=1793"},"modified":"2017-12-28T01:03:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T01:03:23","slug":"no-homework-in-the-orchard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/no-homework-in-the-orchard\/","title":{"rendered":"No Homework in the Orchard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AdobeStock_85738750_Credit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1795 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AdobeStock_85738750_Credit-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"AdobeStock_85738750_Credit\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AdobeStock_85738750_Credit-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AdobeStock_85738750_Credit-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/answer-sheet\/wp\/2017\/02\/26\/what-happened-when-one-school-banned-homework-and-asked-kids-to-read-and-play-instead\/?utm_term=.0fab2a6af825\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> on [edit] Orchard School in South Burlington, VT, [<del>a PK-5 school in Orchard, VT<\/del>] which no longer assigns homework. Instead &#8212; and this is a crucial &#8220;instead&#8221; &#8212; it does urge students and families to read together. Also, it discourages students from adding to screen time, exhorting them to go outside and play.<\/p>\n<p>The school isn&#8217;t keeping systematic data (as far as I can tell), but so far they&#8217;ve got positive anecdotes &#8212; balanced by a few concerns.<\/p>\n<p>For a more research-driven approach to this question, see this earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/the-grade-school-homework-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a>.<\/p>\n[Editor&#8217;s note: my thanks to an astute reader who points out there is no such place as Orchard, VT. &#8220;Orchard&#8221; is the name of the school, not the town.]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post reports on [edit] Orchard School in South Burlington, VT, [a PK-5 school in Orchard, VT] which no longer assigns homework. Instead &#8212; and this is a crucial &#8220;instead&#8221; &#8212; it does urge students and families to read together. Also, it discourages students from adding to screen time, exhorting them to go outside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":1795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-1793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lb-blog","tag-homework"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1935,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions\/1935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}