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CLASSROOM7 MIN
What we changed about homework, and what happened next
Two years ago we cut written homework in the middle school by half. Here is the data, including the part that did not go the way we expected.
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Anita Rawat
Head of Middle School · 28 JULY 2026
Why we still read aloud in Grade 9
CLASSROOM5 MIN
Why we still read aloud in Grade 9
Reading aloud is treated as a primary-school activity. We kept it for fifteen-year-olds, and the comprehension results are the argument.
Rohit Menon
14 JULY 2026
Phones, and the boarding corridor at 10pm
BOARDING6 MIN
Phones, and the boarding corridor at 10pm
The phone policy parents ask about most, written out in full, including where we have compromised.
Farida Qureshi
30 JUNE 2026
What a lab period actually looks like
ACADEMICS8 MIN
What a lab period actually looks like
Forty minutes, twenty-four students, one set of apparatus. A minute-by-minute account of a Grade 11 chemistry practical.
Sandeep Iyer
16 JUNE 2026
The bus route nobody wanted
OPERATIONS5 MIN
The bus route nobody wanted
How a badly designed transport route added forty minutes to eleven children's mornings, and what fixing it cost.
Vikram Sethi
2 JUNE 2026
Marking a hundred essays without lying to yourself
ACADEMICS6 MIN
Marking a hundred essays without lying to yourself
On rubric drift, the third-hour problem, and why we mark in randomised order.
Anita Rawat
19 MAY 2026
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