Case Against Homework How Homework Is Hurting Children and What Parents Can Do About It

Sara Bennett is a criminal defense appeals attorney and was the first director of the Wrongful Convictions Project of New York City's Legal Aid Society. She is an expert in the post-conviction representation of battered women and the wrongly convicted, and lectures widely. Sara and her cases have been featured in theNew York Timesand on60 Minutes II,Dateline NBC, and theTodayshow. She successfully challenged and changed homework policies at her children's schools. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Nancy Kalish is a former senior editor atChildand columnist forRedbook,Working Mother, andSelecciones. She writes often forParenting,Parents,Real Simple,Reader's Digest,More, Ladies' Home Journal,Health,Prevention, and other magazines. While writing this book, Nancy put several of the strategies to work for her own daughter, always with positive results. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. From the Hardcover edition.Bennett, Sara is the author of 'Case Against Homework How Homework Is Hurting Children and What Parents Can Do About It', published 2007 under ISBN 9780307340184 and ISBN 030734018X.