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Re:More parents, students saying 'no' to homework by pen2l on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @08:44PM (#10462222)
> 2) Do more with the time given, by cutting students who disrupt class.

If you keep doing that for a long enough time, no more students will be left in the class. So I don't think this a practical solution that will yield better results than whatever we have going on today.

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Re:More parents, students saying 'no' to homework by rayiner on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @12:06AM (#10462792)
Why do you think that? I'd wager impulsiveness and attention span are normally distributed, and there are gains to be had tracking those say more than 1 SD below the mean into classes specially equipped to handle them.
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