Posts about: struggling students

‘There’s only so far I can take them’ – why teachers give up on struggling students who don’t do their homework

‘There’s only so far I can take them’ – why teachers give up on struggling students who don’t do their homework

Whenever “Gina,” a fifth grader at a suburban public school on the East Coast, did her math homework, she never had to worry about whether she could get help from her mom. “I help her a lot with homework,” Gina’s mother, a married, mid-level manager for a health care company, explained to us during an […]…