How to make children do homework
Sending texts to parents improves pupils’ grades as much as summer school
HOW can schools get parents interested in their children’s education? It is an important question: there is rare consensus among teachers, scholars and policymakers that children do better when their parents are involved in their school life. But getting parents on board is hard. It is particularly tricky, say teachers, to get parents who got little out of their own time in school to push their children to knuckle down.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “How to make children do homework”
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