![]() "I knew this would be a big shift for my community," she says. Every day for 30 minutes, more if they had time or the inclination, with parents or on their own. This past September, Stephanie Brant, principal of Gaithersburg Elementary School in Gaithersburg, Md., decided that instead of teachers sending kids home with math worksheets and spelling flash cards, students would instead go home and read. It was a move that doesn't happen very often in American public schools: The principal got rid of homework.
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