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Decided that I want gold shoes, now I got gold shoes
"After spending all day in school, our children are forced to begin a second shift, with more academic assignments to be completed at home. This arrangement is rather odd when you stop to think about it, as is the fact that few of us ever do stop to think about it.
Instead of assuming that homework should be a given, or that it allegedly benefits children, I’ve spent the last few years reviewing the available research and talking to parents, teachers and students. My findings can be summarized in seven words: Homework is all pain and no gain.
The pain is obvious to kids but isn’t always taken seriously by adults. Backpacks stuffed with assignments leave students exhausted, frustrated, less interested in intellectual pursuits and lacking time to do things they enjoy. “Most of what homework is doing,” says literacy expert Harvey Daniels, “is driving kids away from learning.”
We parents, meanwhile, turn into nags. After being away from our children all day, the first words out of our mouths, sadly, may be: “So, did you finish your homework?” One mother told me it permanently damaged her relationship with her son because it forced her to be an enforcer rather than a mom.
The surprising news, though, is that there are virtually no pros to balance the cons. Even if you regard grades or test scores as good measures of learning, which I do not, doing homework has no statistical relationship to achievement in elementary school. In high school, some studies do find a correlation between homework and test scores, but it’s usually fairly small. And in any case, it’s far from clear that the former causes the latter. And if you’re wondering, not a single study has ever supported the folk wisdom that homework teaches good work habits or develops positive character traits such as self-discipline, responsibility or independence."
Alfie Kohn, The Case Against Homework (via thislifeunforgiven)
Shit I knew in school but was unable to articulate.
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i almost never did homework at home. i hated it. i did it during other classes when i had finished the work for that, but only because i was able to finish classwork quickly. it would definitely be an awesome thing to see our culture shift away from mandatory homework.
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Keng Lye - Alive without Breath (2013) - Hyperrealistic sea animals created using acrylics and epoxy resin, layer by layer
this is amazing
now i need to go back and watch goldfish salvation. again.
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Artists of Middle-earth: John Howe pt. 2
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The reason I have black hairs all over my sweater.
Model: Nia Scott
Makeup/Hair/Photography: Taryn Scalise
perf
I found a cute little bear vest in my garage when I was playing with the kids today and so of course I had to see if it fit hiccup. If I had to guess, I think he likes it. UuU
Oh my God that stupid cat… what a good stupid cat…
what a perfect cat omg
this could be my cat, sweet fuck
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My mother brings home the weirdest shit sometimes.
Sylvia, Helsinki, 2013
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