Homework - Is it Worth It?
In what is probably one of THE longest running discussions in the history of US public education, comes yet another study on the outcomes for student doing homework. From Stanford University News (Stanford is where the study was conducted): A Stanford researcher found that too much homework can negatively affect kids, especially their lives away from school, where family, friends and activities matter. "Our findings on the effects of homework challenge the traditional assumption that homework is inherently good," wrote Denise Pope , a senior lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Education and a co-author of a study published in the Journal of Experimental Education. What is fascinating is who the researchers studied. It was about 4,000 students from 10 high-performing high schools in well-off California cities. There was a survey and open-ended questions about the students' own thoughts on homework. Students in these schools average about 3.1 hours o...