What

Brookings Mountain West at UNLV welcomes Thomas Loveless, Brookings Institution senior fellow, for "Do Students Have Too Much Homework?"

When

Thursday, November 18, 2010 - 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Where

Greenspun Hall Auditorium at UNLV
Free and open to the public

Details

The popular press and best-selling books frequently decry the heavy homework burden of American students. Tom Loveless, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and Harvard Professor, will draw on scientific and historical data to examine how the homework load has changed for students over the years.

Loveless, also a former sixth-grade teacher and member of the Natioanl Math Advisory Panel, is an expert on student achievement, education policy, and reform in K-12 schools.

The Brookings Scholars program - a product of Brookings Mountain West - welcomes leading experts from the Brookings Institution to UNLV each month to lend insight on key regional issues through interaction with campus and community leaders, collaborative research and a free public lecture held in conjunction with each scholar's visit to campus.

For more information on Brookings Mountain West, including visiting scholar biographies, please visit http://brookingsmtnwest.unlv.edu