Mary Jane Cera is the academic administrator for the Kino School,
a private, nonprofit K-12 school in Tucson,
Arizona, which maintains a no-homework policy across all grades.
The purpose of the policy is to make sure learning remains a joy for students,
not a second shift of work that impedes social time and creative activity.
Cera says that when new students are told there will be no homework assignments,
they breathe a sigh of relief.