Vicki Abeles

“Imagine if we taught baseball the way that we teach science,” says UC Berkeley psychologist Alison Gopnik. “We would tell kids about baseball in the first couple of years. By the time they got to be in junior high, maybe we’d give them a drill where they could throw the ball to second base, over and over and over again. In college, they’d get to reproduce great, famous baseball plays, and then they’d never actually get to play the game until they were in graduate school.” High-quality project-based learning is, essentially, playing ball. There”
― Vicki Abeles, Beyond Measure: Rescuing an Overscheduled, Overtested, Underestimated Generation

“According to both scientific and anecdotal research, it is clear that homework should be the exception, not the rule. Even the most inventive or meaningful assignments still infringe on the time that belongs to families.”
― Vicki Abeles, Beyond Measure: Rescuing an Overscheduled, Overtested, Underestimated Generation