Walter Johnson High School has what it calls a Homework Board, while Montgomery Blair High School has a version called the Blair Educational Network. Elsewhere, teachers often rely on Internet education companies that provide space for educators to set up their own interactive pages. Holmes students and parents can click on the Web page for Paul Benedict's eighth-grade science class and find out about a quiz that will ask 14 questions about the atom. Every day, Benedict lists homework assignments on his chalkboard, then he sits down at his computer and posts them on the Internet. It's become a habit.
Students have mixed feelings.
Some say they like being able to check what homework they missed when absent, or what extra credit they can do to beef up their grades. If you get a bad grade, parents will come to you and ask what happened. It's that constant nagging that some people have to deal with. And ask they do. The idea has caught on in schools across the Washington region and nationwide.