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Most teachers worldwide are not making efficient use of homework, said David P. Baker, professor of education and sociology. They assign homework mostly as ... "American students appear to do as much homework as their peers overseas -- if not more -- but still only score around the international average," LeTendre said.
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"That's not to say there aren't any kids with too much homework. There surely are some. There's enormous variation across communities. But it's not a crisis in that it's a very small proportion of kids who are spending an enormous amount of time on homework."
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In October, a survey by Public Agenda, a nonprofit research group, found that 10 percent of parents think their kids are getting too much homework. Two-thirds of parents felt their children were getting the right amount - and 25 percent thought they were getting too little.
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Modern Grade-School Pressures: Too Much Homework, Too Little Freeplay ... If you think there's too much homework and too little play time in the school's curriculum, then say so. And consider homeschooling (that's what I'm doing).
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Looks like a pair of researchers have gotten around to proving what many students have argued all along--too much homework may result in less prepared students. The researchers, Gerald K. LeTendre and David P. Baker, raise several issues associated with homework.
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April 29, 2002: Commentator Ron Wolk, founding editor of Education Week magazine, says schools require students to learn too much useless information, and saddle children with too much homework.
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What words come to mind when the word homework is mentioned? Stress? Sleepless nights? ... Patrick Pirilla, also a senior, put it best when he said, "Too much to do, too little time."
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The 2003 Brown Center Report addresses how students are performing in reading and mathematics, the amount of homework that students receive, and presents a follow-up to the 2002 study on charter schools. ... The second section is a study of homework. Conventional wisdom is that higher academic standards, a bedrock of No...
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"Is homework too much for those kids? You bet," she said. "We have to ask what our priorities are. Is education more important or is it doing many, many tasks?" ... "If a child was doing too much homework, I'd expect a parent to contact me, and I'd adjust it," she said.
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Books like The Case Against Homework (Crown, 2006) and The Homework Myth (Da Capo, 2007) have argued that too much of today's homework is mindless busywork that takes away from family time and does not improve academic performance. ... But how much homework is too much?
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