In "The Movement to End Homework Is Wrong," published in July, the Times Opinion writer Jay Caspian Kang argues that homework may be imperfect, but it still serves an important purpose in ...
Homework is pointless. Here's what you should do instead
But ultimately, the best replacement for homework is, simply, a parent or caregiver's attention. "Spend time with them and see them as people. At school, they operate as a herd, and as hard as ...
Why Homework Should Be Banned From Schools
Yet we continue to overwork our children, depriving them of the chance to cultivate health and learn deeply, burdening them with an imbalance of sedentary, academic tasks. American high school ...
Does homework still have value? A Johns Hopkins education expert weighs
The necessity of homework has been a subject of debate since at least as far back as the 1890s, according to Joyce L. Epstein, co-director of the Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships at Johns Hopkins University. "It's always been the case that parents, kids—and sometimes teachers, too—wonder if this is just busy work ...
Is homework a necessary evil?
Beyond that point, kids don't absorb much useful information, Cooper says. In fact, too much homework can do more harm than good. Researchers have cited drawbacks, including boredom and burnout toward academic material, less time for family and extracurricular activities, lack of sleep and increased stress.
Is Homework Good for Kids? Here's What the Research Says
A TIME cover in 1999 read: "Too much homework! How it's hurting our kids, and what parents should do about it.". The accompanying story noted that the launch of Sputnik in 1957 led to a push ...
Key Lessons: What Research Says About the Value of Homework
Too much homework may diminish its effectiveness. While research on the optimum amount of time students should spend on homework is limited, there are indications that for high school students, 1½ to 2½ hours per night is optimum. Middle school students appear to benefit from smaller amounts (less than 1 hour per night).
Is Homework Valuable or Not? Try Looking at Quality Instead
The CAP analysis appears to be one of the first studies to look at homework rigor using a national survey lens. Many studies of homework are based on one school or one district's assignments ...
Is it time to get rid of homework? Mental health experts weigh in
For older students, Kang says, homework benefits plateau at about two hours per night. "Most students, especially at these high achieving schools, they're doing a minimum of three hours, and it's ...
Homework: is it worth the hassle?
The anxiety related to homework is frequently reviewed. A survey of high-performing high schools by the Stanford Graduate School of Education, for example, found that 56% of students considered ...
Homework Pros and Cons
Public opinion swayed again in favor of homework in the 1950s due to concerns about keeping up with the Soviet Union's technological advances during the Cold War. And, in 1986, the US government included homework as an educational quality boosting tool. A 2014 study found kindergarteners to fifth graders averaged 2.9 hours of homework per ...
Why does homework exist?
The homework wars are back. By Jacob Sweet Updated Feb 23, 2023, 6:04am EST. As the Covid-19 pandemic began and students logged into their remote classrooms, all work, in effect, became homework ...
Should Kids Get Homework?
Too much, however, is harmful. And homework has a greater positive effect on students in secondary school (grades 7-12) than those in elementary. "Every child should be doing homework, but the ...
Does homework work when kids are learning all day at home?
In fact, of the more than 50,000 high school students that Challenge Success surveyed from October 2018 to January 2020, 56 percent of students said they had too much homework. In that same sample ...
"Homework Should Be…but We Do Not Live in an Ideal World": Mathematics
Research Background on Homework Characteristics. Homework is a complex educational process involving a diverse set of variables that each may influence students' academic outcomes (e.g., Corno, 2000; Trautwein and Köller, 2003; Cooper et al., 2006; Epstein and Van Voorhis, 2012). Cooper (1989, 2001) presented a model outlining the factors that may potentially influence the effect of ...
Debate: Do Kids Need Homework?
Yes! Homework is a valuable tool that allows students to practice what we learned. Without it, we might forget what we were taught in class, and that could cause our grades to suffer. Plus, assignments show teachers whether or not kids understood the day's lessons. That alerts them to the areas where kids need help.
Should Students Have Homework?
According to Duke professor Harris Cooper, it's important that students have homework. His meta-analysis of homework studies showed a correlation between completing homework and academic success, at least in older grades. He recommends following a "10 minute rule": students should receive 10 minutes of homework per day in first grade, and 10 ...
The Pros and Cons: Should Students Have Homework?
Homework allows for more time to complete the learning process. School hours are not always enough time for students to really understand core concepts, and homework can counter the effects of time shortages, benefiting students in the long run, even if they can't see it in the moment. 6. Homework Reduces Screen Time.
Math Homework Can End Up Doing More Harm Than Good, Study Shows
Giving pupils math homework can sometimes do more harm than good, according to a new study - particularly when the tasks involved in the work are too complex for kids to complete even with the help of their parents. The researchers, from the University of South Australia and St Francis Xavier University in Canada, interviewed eight Canadian ...
Opinion: Do kids really need to do homework?
The OECD acknowledges its Pisa studies show lower grades for children who reported spending more time on homework. Photo / 123RF. OPINION. Seven-year-old Nadia Nizinkiewicz is thrilled about the ...
Poland's kids rejoice over new rules against homework. Teachers and
The homework rules gained impetus in the runup to parliamentary elections last year, when a 14-year-old boy, Maciek Matuszewski, stood up at a campaign rally and told Tusk before a national audience that children "had no time to rest." The boy said their rights were being violated with so much homework on weekends and so many tests on Mondays.
Poland's battle over homework
Tom McGrath, director of the British Primary School on the outskirts of Warsaw, observes that Poland's debate over homework shows how "education has become part of the culture wars". Only ...
Poland's kids rejoice over new rules against homework. Teachers and
The homework rules gained impetus in the runup to parliamentary elections last year, when a 14-year-old boy, Maciek Matuszewski, stood up at a campaign rally and told Tusk before a national ...
Opinion
In Singapore, schools adhere to government guidelines, which recommend 0.5 to 1 hour of homework daily for those in Primary 1 to 2, and 1 to 1.5 hours for those in Primary 3 to 4.
Coast Guard Academy cadets disciplined over homework cheating
NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — Fifty-five U.S. Coast Guard Academy cadets have been disciplined for sharing homework answers in violation of academy policy, Coast Guard officials announced. After a series of disciplinary hearings, six of the cadets failed the course and 48 got lowered grades, officials said Wednesday. The cadets were accused of ...
Opinion
Opinion The Time Travelers' Wives. Opinion. The Time Travelers' Wives. A man enters the Arizona Supreme Court building on Wednesday in Phoenix. (Matt York/AP) "Before you get too attached to ...
COMMENTS
In "The Movement to End Homework Is Wrong," published in July, the Times Opinion writer Jay Caspian Kang argues that homework may be imperfect, but it still serves an important purpose in ...
But ultimately, the best replacement for homework is, simply, a parent or caregiver's attention. "Spend time with them and see them as people. At school, they operate as a herd, and as hard as ...
Yet we continue to overwork our children, depriving them of the chance to cultivate health and learn deeply, burdening them with an imbalance of sedentary, academic tasks. American high school ...
The necessity of homework has been a subject of debate since at least as far back as the 1890s, according to Joyce L. Epstein, co-director of the Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships at Johns Hopkins University. "It's always been the case that parents, kids—and sometimes teachers, too—wonder if this is just busy work ...
Beyond that point, kids don't absorb much useful information, Cooper says. In fact, too much homework can do more harm than good. Researchers have cited drawbacks, including boredom and burnout toward academic material, less time for family and extracurricular activities, lack of sleep and increased stress.
A TIME cover in 1999 read: "Too much homework! How it's hurting our kids, and what parents should do about it.". The accompanying story noted that the launch of Sputnik in 1957 led to a push ...
Too much homework may diminish its effectiveness. While research on the optimum amount of time students should spend on homework is limited, there are indications that for high school students, 1½ to 2½ hours per night is optimum. Middle school students appear to benefit from smaller amounts (less than 1 hour per night).
The CAP analysis appears to be one of the first studies to look at homework rigor using a national survey lens. Many studies of homework are based on one school or one district's assignments ...
For older students, Kang says, homework benefits plateau at about two hours per night. "Most students, especially at these high achieving schools, they're doing a minimum of three hours, and it's ...
The anxiety related to homework is frequently reviewed. A survey of high-performing high schools by the Stanford Graduate School of Education, for example, found that 56% of students considered ...
Public opinion swayed again in favor of homework in the 1950s due to concerns about keeping up with the Soviet Union's technological advances during the Cold War. And, in 1986, the US government included homework as an educational quality boosting tool. A 2014 study found kindergarteners to fifth graders averaged 2.9 hours of homework per ...
The homework wars are back. By Jacob Sweet Updated Feb 23, 2023, 6:04am EST. As the Covid-19 pandemic began and students logged into their remote classrooms, all work, in effect, became homework ...
Too much, however, is harmful. And homework has a greater positive effect on students in secondary school (grades 7-12) than those in elementary. "Every child should be doing homework, but the ...
In fact, of the more than 50,000 high school students that Challenge Success surveyed from October 2018 to January 2020, 56 percent of students said they had too much homework. In that same sample ...
Research Background on Homework Characteristics. Homework is a complex educational process involving a diverse set of variables that each may influence students' academic outcomes (e.g., Corno, 2000; Trautwein and Köller, 2003; Cooper et al., 2006; Epstein and Van Voorhis, 2012). Cooper (1989, 2001) presented a model outlining the factors that may potentially influence the effect of ...
Yes! Homework is a valuable tool that allows students to practice what we learned. Without it, we might forget what we were taught in class, and that could cause our grades to suffer. Plus, assignments show teachers whether or not kids understood the day's lessons. That alerts them to the areas where kids need help.
According to Duke professor Harris Cooper, it's important that students have homework. His meta-analysis of homework studies showed a correlation between completing homework and academic success, at least in older grades. He recommends following a "10 minute rule": students should receive 10 minutes of homework per day in first grade, and 10 ...
Homework allows for more time to complete the learning process. School hours are not always enough time for students to really understand core concepts, and homework can counter the effects of time shortages, benefiting students in the long run, even if they can't see it in the moment. 6. Homework Reduces Screen Time.
Giving pupils math homework can sometimes do more harm than good, according to a new study - particularly when the tasks involved in the work are too complex for kids to complete even with the help of their parents. The researchers, from the University of South Australia and St Francis Xavier University in Canada, interviewed eight Canadian ...
The OECD acknowledges its Pisa studies show lower grades for children who reported spending more time on homework. Photo / 123RF. OPINION. Seven-year-old Nadia Nizinkiewicz is thrilled about the ...
The homework rules gained impetus in the runup to parliamentary elections last year, when a 14-year-old boy, Maciek Matuszewski, stood up at a campaign rally and told Tusk before a national audience that children "had no time to rest." The boy said their rights were being violated with so much homework on weekends and so many tests on Mondays.
Tom McGrath, director of the British Primary School on the outskirts of Warsaw, observes that Poland's debate over homework shows how "education has become part of the culture wars". Only ...
The homework rules gained impetus in the runup to parliamentary elections last year, when a 14-year-old boy, Maciek Matuszewski, stood up at a campaign rally and told Tusk before a national ...
In Singapore, schools adhere to government guidelines, which recommend 0.5 to 1 hour of homework daily for those in Primary 1 to 2, and 1 to 1.5 hours for those in Primary 3 to 4.
NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — Fifty-five U.S. Coast Guard Academy cadets have been disciplined for sharing homework answers in violation of academy policy, Coast Guard officials announced. After a series of disciplinary hearings, six of the cadets failed the course and 48 got lowered grades, officials said Wednesday. The cadets were accused of ...
Opinion The Time Travelers' Wives. Opinion. The Time Travelers' Wives. A man enters the Arizona Supreme Court building on Wednesday in Phoenix. (Matt York/AP) "Before you get too attached to ...