Summer Homework

(originally aired: May 14, 2015) Guest: Denise Pope, Senior Lecturer, Stanford University, Co-founder of Challenge Success At the start of summer, kids race home from the last day of school, ditching their backpacks in hallways and kitchen corners. Inside will likely be a packet the kids—and their parents—prefer to forget for now. Summer homework assignments are meant to counter the "brain drain" that can leave kids a little rusty when they show up for school again in the fall, but is homework the answer?