On a recent Saturday, I stared at my group’s ongoing assignment for English class, getting lost in thought and wondering if anyone else in my group would work on it over the weekend. As a high school ...

For many students, group projects elicit feelings of frustration due to improperly managed or unequally distributed labor or burdensome time allocated to an assignment. However, group work can give ...

Jacqueline Chaney’s 2nd grade class buzzes with activity all day long, and a good chunk of it takes place in groups. By just the second month of school, the 7- and 8-year-olds move effortlessly in and ...

As a college professor, trying to get students excited about the work I have to grade later can be one of the more frustrating things about teaching. But when an assignment hits the right chord, it ...

This fall, after a restless night overthinking an assignment for my upcoming class and drinking three cups of not-strong-enough coffee, I added the final touch on my latest assignment for students in ...

Students nationwide spend long summer hours completing preparatory assignments for their Advanced Placement courses. At Jericho High School, AP classes are very popular, leaving a large number of ...

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