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

  • Written by Jessica Calarco, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Indiana University
'There's only so far I can take them' – why teachers give up on struggling students who don't do their homeworkFailure to complete homework leaves students in the lurch.MoMorad via Getty Images

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,...

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