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About Me
- Kerry Dickinson
- Danville, CA, United States
- My interest in rethinking homework began seriously in the summer of 2007 when I saw my then middle school-aged boys dreading school...
Welcome Students, Parents, Teachers
Link to my District's Homework Policy
Links to Articles/News
- A History of Educational Philosophies
- A New Instructional Definition for Homework
- Access to Books Key to Academic Achievement
- Bay Area Kids Magazine article on Race to Nowhere
- Children's Happiness article from Encounter Magazine
- CLA - Collegiate Learning Assessment
- Diablo Magazine article on homework
- Do Children Have Too Much Homework?
- Dr. Oz interview about children and stress
- Homework: Sometimes Less is More
- Kindergarten Cram: NY Times article
- Leave Your Children Alone
- NBC interview transcript
- Oprah: Are Your Children Burnt Out?
- Parenting Magazine article on homework
- Psychology Today article: Race to the Top
- The Less Homework Revolution
- To Grade or Not to Grade Homework
- Too Much Homework webpage
DVDs and Audio
- Clandestine
- Flunked the Movie
- I Want To Do This All Day CD
- Katie Couric interview on Race to Nowhere
- No Grades + No Homework = Better Learning DVD
- Race to Nowhere DVD
- Schooled DVD
- SOS-Stressed Out Students Keynote DVD
- The Cartel documentary
- The Schools Our Children Deserve DVD
- The War on Kids DVD
- Unconditional Parenting DVD
- Waiting for Superman
- Where Do The Children Play? DVD
Some Favorite
...Parenting
- Boys Adrift, Sax, 2007
- Last Child in the Woods, Louv, 2008
- Nurture Shock, Bronson & Merryman, 2009
- Raising Cain, Kindlon & Thompson, 2000
- Raising Happiness, Carter, 2010
- The Blessing of a B Minus, Mogel, 2010
- The Blessing of a Skinned Knee, Mogel, 2001
- The Gift of an Ordinary Day, Kenison, 2009
- The Hurried Child, Elkind, 2001
- The Price of Privilege, Levine, 2006
- Unconditional Parenting, Kohn, 2005
- Under Pressure, Honore, 2008
...Education
- A Good Little School, Basile, 2004
- A Mathematician's Lament, Lockhart, 2009
- Doing School, Pope, 2001
- Educating Hearts and Minds, Lewis, 1995
- Feel-Bad Education, Kohn, 2011
- Fires in the Mind, Cushman, 2010
- Punished by Rewards, Kohn, 1993
- The Big Picture, Littky and Grabelle, 2004
- The Book Whisperer, Miller, 2009
- The Child and The Curriculum, Dewey, 1902
- The Global Achievement Gap, Wagner, 2008
- The New Global Student, Frost, 2009
- The Underachieving School, Holt, 1969
- What Every Great Teacher Knows, Gibboney and Clark, 1998
- Why School?, Rose, 2009
...ADHD
...Homework
...Life
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