These include homework - free weekends like the one coming up over Thanksgiving break, encouraging teachers to economize on assignments by, for instance, assigning fewer practice problems in math (10 can serve just as well as 25), and creating a centralized homework calendar that will allow teachers to
coordinate big assignments, so that kids don't end up with a lot of tests or projects due on the same day.
Suddenly, there are more
assignments, multiple teachers (who may or may not
coordinate to present the child with one simple calendar), and each task is
bigger than before.