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Michael T

Homework, ban: Debatabase - Debate Topics and Debate Motions - 3 views

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  • American studies report the amount of homework being set for younger students doubling over the past twenty-five years or so, although some doubt these findings.
    • Michael T
      Michael T on 08 Apr 10
       
      Resolved
  • This topic looks at whether homework should be banned altogether. The arguments could also be adapted for debates on whether less homework should be set, or on ending homework for younger students.
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  • Homework is a class issue. In school everyone is equal, but at home some people have advantages because of their family background. Middle-class families with books and computers will be able to help their children much more than poorer ones can. This can mean working class children end up with worse grades and more punishments for undone or badly done homework. On the other hand pushy parents may even end up doing their kids’ homework for them – cheating. And homework is one of the most common causes of family arguments.
  • Education is a partnership between the child, the school and the home. Homework is one of the main ways in which the student’s family can be involved with their learning. Many parents value the chance to see what their child is studying and to support them in it. And schools need parents’ support in encouraging students to read at home, to help with the practising of tables, and to give them opportunities to research new topics.
  • If homework puts students off learning, then it has been badly planned by the teacher. The best homework tasks engage and stretch students, encouraging them to think for themselves and follow through ideas which interest them. Over time, well planned homework can help students develop good habits, such as reading for pleasure or creative writing
  • Homework puts students off learning. Studies have shown that many children find doing homework very stressful, boring and tiring. Often teachers underestimate how long a task will take, or set an unrealistic deadline. Sometimes because a teacher has not explained something new well in class, the homework task is impossible. So children end up paying with their free time for the failings of their teachers. They also suffer punishments if work is done badly or late. After years of bad homework experiences, it is no wonder that many children come to dislike education and switch off, or drop out too early.
  • Having homework also allows students to really fix in their heads work they have done in school. Doing tasks linked to recent lessons helps students strengthen their understanding and become more confident in using new knowledge and skills. For younger children this could be practising reading or multiplication tables. For older ones it might be writing up an experiment, revising for a test, reading in preparation for the next topic, etc.
  • Homework is almost always done when a child is already tired from a long day at school. As a result few students are at their best when they sit down in the evening to yet more work. Homework ends up being done in a hurry, by students fighting fatigue, and poor quality work is produced. Worse still, students who have been up late trying to finish off their homework, then come tired into school the next day, and so are less ready to learn. Really, what is the point?
  • Homework has little educational worth and adds nothing to the time spent in school. Some schools and some countries don’t bother with homework at all, and their results do not seem to suffer from it. Studies show that homework adds nothing to standardised test scores for primary/ elementary pupils. International comparisons of older students have found no positive relationship between the amount of homework set and average test scores. If anything, countries with more homework got worse results!
  • Homework is a vital and valuable part of education. There are only a few hours in each school day – not enough time to cover properly all the subjects children need to study. Setting homework extends study beyond school hours, allowing a wider and deeper education. It also makes the best use of teachers, who can spend lesson time teaching rather than just supervising individual work that could be done at home. Tasks such as reading, writing essays, researching, doing maths problems, etc. are best done at home, away from the distractions of other students.
Michael T

Homework and Social Class - 4 views

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Affirmative Negative Harm Significance

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  • Supporters argue that it enriches students' lives by teaching them that learning can take place anywhere, even outside school walls
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      Michael T on 26 Mar 10
       
      Social Class????
  • Too much homework cuts into students' free time, preventing them from pursuing their own academic interests. Additionally, opponents say that many homework assignments can be physically unhealthy, since they can cause stress, which has been shown to lead to obesity and depression in many adolescents.
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  • homework maintain that while homework negatively affects all students, it is most acutely harmful to students who come from lower-income families.
  • They also maintain that homework teaches discipline and time-management skills, which are applicable to most jobs that students will take once they enter the workforce
  • the concept that students from middle- and upper-class families tend to perform better in school than students from lower-income families
  • middle- and upper-class students lead far less stressful lives than children who come from lower-class families, making wealthier students more likely to perform better during school hours.
  • Affluent children are likely to have rooms or workspaces of their own, while many underprivileged students must carve out a nook in more crowded housing. And when they do so, they aren't apt to have computers or reference books on hand to help."
  • argue that it enriches students' lives by teaching them that learning can take place anywhere, even outside school walls
  • Michael T on 26 Mar 10
     
    "Homework and Social Class (sidebar)." Issues & Controversies On File: n. pag. Issues & Controversies. Facts On File News Services, 2 Nov. 2007. Web. 26 Mar. 2010. .
Lauren S

Quebec report fuels homework debate; Parents and educators are divided on the merits of... - 2 views

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affirmative negative plan

shared by Lauren S on 03 Apr 10 - Cached
  • enough homework to keep the girl up well past her bedtime
  • "You cannot expect a kid to sit still in class for six to eight hours a day and then come home and do homework for two hours,"
  • "When do they have time to be a child?"
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  • homework for elementary school students should be re-examined, refocused, possibly even abolished.
  • families are now headed by single parents or by two parents who both work and have less time to help their children with homework.
    • Lauren S
      Lauren S on 03 Apr 10
       
      This creates stress for the parents and children that could be avoided if homework was banned
  • scientific studies have not shown a definitive link between homework and the academic success
  • make homework more targeted to students' needs, whether they have learning difficulties, are average or excel in class.
    • Lauren S
      Lauren S on 03 Apr 10
       
      Negative plan - instead of banning homework altogether, limit it by making it more effective, instead of just pointless busy work
  • day-to-day classroom work should be completed during the school day, under the teacher's supervision.
  • children should do their work at school and have the rest of the time to pursue other interests.
  • "I'm pro-homework if it reinforces the concepts teachers are trying to get across in school,"
  • "If it's just busy work, it has very, very little effect."
    • Lauren S
      Lauren S on 03 Apr 10
       
      Homework wouldn't be a big issue if teachers limited the amount of work and actually made it effective for the students
  • the 10 minutes a day per grade rule, meaning 10 minutes for Grade 1 students, 20 minutes for Grade 2 students and so on.
    • Lauren S
      Lauren S on 03 Apr 10
       
      Negative plan possibly
  • Much of the complaining about homework comes from parents who say it stresses them out.
  • doing homework develops good work habits and enhances learning
  • homework was often a source of household stress.
  • Some of that stress could be relieved if children used computer programs or homework clubs for help.
  • Lauren S on 03 Apr 10
     
    http://elibrary.bigchalk.es.vrc.scoolaid.net/elibweb/elib/do/document?set=search&dictionaryClick=&secondaryNav=&groupid=1&requestid=lib_standard&resultid=1&edition=&ts=DB96665812138820F828EFB1F523663D_1270315478831&start=1&publicationId=&urn=urn%3Abigchalk%3AUS%3BBCLib%3Bdocument%3B178284752#citation Matthew Pearson Matthew Pearson; The Ottawa Citizen; with files from Canwest News Service. "Quebec report fuels homework debate; Parents and educators are divided on the merits of giving children homework from an early age, Matthew Pearson reports.." Ottawa Citizen. 29 Mar. 2010: B1. eLibrary. Web. 03 Apr. 2010.
Lauren S

Homework ban up for vote - 3 views

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Affirmative harm

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  • school board in Half Moon Bay CA
  • "homework is burning students out terribly."
Lauren S

How much homework should students have? - 2 views

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Both negative plan

shared by Lauren S on 26 Mar 10 - Cached
  • *Grade school, one hour maximum. *High school, two hours maximum. *College, as much time as is necessary.
  • Parents generally expect too much time on homework
  • Most students in grade school or high school put in six, seven or eight consecutive hours there. After that, they deserve a break for some fun and games and then a limited time in home studying.
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  • Most working parents average eight-hour days on the job. After that most get diversion, whether at home or away.
  • Students deserve the same
  • At every grade level, some time in sports, the arts, other extracurricular activities or on-the-job business experience is as important as book-learning.
  • At every grade level, some time in sports, the arts, other extracurricular activities or on-the-job business experience is as important as book-learning.
  • At every grade level, some time in sports, the arts, other extracurricular activities or on-the-job business experience is as important as book-learning.
  • At every grade level, some time in sports, the arts, other extracurricular activities or on-the-job business experience is as important as book-learning.
  • At every grade level, some time in sports, the arts, other extracurricular activities or on-the-job business experience is as important as book-learning.
  • The kind of homework matters as much as the amount -- it should help students master the subject and spark their imagination, while leaving time for other activities."
  • Lauren S on 26 Mar 10
     
    http://0-proquest.umi.com.opac.esboces.org/pqdweb?did=1848775381&sid=1&Fmt=3&clientId=19673&RQT=309&VName=PQD Al Neuharth. "How much homework should students have? " USA TODAY 28 Aug. 2009,USA TODAY, ProQuest. Web. 26 Mar. 2010.
Michael T

'Changing Times of American Youth: 1981-2003' (sidebar) - 3 views

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Background Information Inherency Significance Harm_

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      Michael T on 26 Mar 10
       
      background information
  • Michael T on 26 Mar 10
     
    "'Changing Times of American Youth: 1981-2003' (sidebar)." Issues & Controversies On File: n. pag. Issues & Controversies. Facts On File News Services, 2 Nov. 2007. Web. 26 Mar. 2010. .
Zachary G

The Homework Debate - 3 views

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affirmative

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      Zachary G on 26 Mar 10
       
      Goes into "good" hw and "bad" hw. can be turned into harms for both sides
  • As a result, he says, "[children] are bored because the things they are given and told to do in school are so trivial, so dull, and make such limited and narrow demands on the wide spectrum of their intelligence, capabilities and talents." 
  • Homework or no homework, parents will always have an important role to play in nurturing a child's love of learning. In fact, it may be that positive family relationships have much more to do with a child's educational success than any other consideration worthy of debate.
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  • Some innovative schools have begun to work at eliminating the kind of monotonous busy-work that kills a child's incentive to learn and keeps them from their families for extended periods in the evenings.
  • Homework proponents insist that some subjects cannot be mastered without repetitive rote memorization. Even homework critics allow for the fact that well thought-out assignments can certainly contribute to a child's love of learning, especially when it requires the full engagement of an inquiring mind.
    • Zachary G
      Zachary G on 26 Mar 10
       
      A difficult to comprehed adn express view about what it is about hw that is so deterimental. Can be turned into a powerful harm for affirmative
    • Zachary G
      Zachary G on 26 Mar 10
       
      explains why hw is a harm on parenting
Zachary G

Resolve The Homework Debate About The Benefits Of Homework. - 1 views

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negetive

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      Zachary G on 26 Mar 10
       
      These points are the the harm of the affirmatives plan. they are negetive arguements that outlines the pros of hw
  • * It reinforces the lessons that have been taught by providing an opportunity to practice. * It teaches responsibility and discipline
  • * It reinforces the lessons that have been taught by providing an opportunity to practice
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  • * It teaches responsibility and discipline
  • * As a prerequisite, to prepare students for a topic or lesson that will be taught in the next day or two
  • It prepares students for the next step; whether it's high school for elementary students or university for high school students where a large amount of work is given and must be done independently as homework.
  • the benefits of homework within your own mind and I'm sure that my pages on
Michael T

Homework - 3 views

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Negative Affirmative Background Information Harm Inherency

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  • N.J. voted unanimously to restrict the amount of homework assigned in local public schools.
  • Piscataway must limit homework to 30 minutes
  • Furthermore, teachers are discouraged from assigning work on weekends and holidays and are not permitted to give grades for homework or assign it as punishment for bad behavior.
  • Michael T on 25 Mar 10
     
    "Homework." Issues & Controversies On File: n. pag. Issues & Controversies. Facts On File News Services, 2 Mar. 2001. Web. 25 Mar. 2010. .
Lauren S

No more teachers, lots of books.(Editorial Desk)(Editorial). - 1 views

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Affirmative

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  • summer these days often means more textbook reading, papers, exams and projects.
  • overburdens our children and sends many back to school burnt out and sick of learning
  • assigned 10 book reports, a thick math packet, a report on China including a written essay and a handmade doll in authentic costume and a daily log of their activities and the weather
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  • required to keep a journal on a different math topic each week this summer, read three books and complete a written and artistic report on two of them.
  • assigned a packet of materials on the Holocaust. Another must read a 656-page book on genocide, on top of three chapters of a science textbook followed by a 15-page take-home exam, prepare a 20-slide PowerPoint presentation and complete an English assignment involving three books and essays.
  • a break from work is a necessary antidote for stress
  • the time away from a problem when newly learned material is absorbed
  • Lauren S on 25 Mar 10
     
    No more teachers, lots of books.(Editorial Desk)(Editorial).
Zachary G

The Homework Debate - 0 views

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  • “Homework is all pain and no gain,” says author Alfie Kohn
  • In his book The Homework Myth, Kohn points out that no study has ever found a correlation between homework and academic achievement in elementary school, and there is little reason to believe that homework is necessary in high school. In fact, it may even diminish interest in learning, says Kohn.
    • Zachary G
      Zachary G on 25 Mar 10
       
      significant harm about having too much hw. Good affirmative arguement
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  • If you've ever had a late night argument with your child about completing homework, you probably know first-hand that homework can be a strain on families
  • Many proponents of homework argue that life is filled with things we don't like to do, and that homework teaches self-discipline, time management and other nonacademic life skills. Kohn challenges this popular notion: If kids have no choice in the matter of homework, they're not really exercising judgment, and are instead losing their sense of autonomy.
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      Zachary G on 25 Mar 10
       
      excellent negetive arguement. outlines variows pros of hw
Michael T

Update: Homework - 0 views

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Background Information Affirmative Negative Harm Inherency

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  • Homework teaches important lessons about time management and discipline. Dealing with homework each night can help prepare students for the rigors of the working world. Homework is also important because it reinforces academic concepts learned during the school day; such reinforcement allows students to better retain the material they have been taught. Homework also tells students that learning can occur outside classroom walls.
    • Michael T
      Michael T on 25 Mar 10
       
      Negative
  • Most students receive too much homework, which prevents their pursuit of other interests. Homework assignments are generally unchallenging "drill" exercises of little or no academic value. Studies have shown barely any correlation between a student's academic success and the amount of time he or she spends on homework. Homework can also be physically unhealthy by causing stress, which has been linked to obesity, migraine headaches and depression.
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    • Michael T
      Michael T on 25 Mar 10
       
      Affirmative
  • A 2004 study showed that U.S. students aged 6 through 17 spent an average of just under four hours a week on homework during the 2002-03 school year.
  • Supporters of homework maintain that it is essential for students to reexamine lessons and concepts that they have learned during the school day while they are at home
    • Michael T
      Michael T on 25 Mar 10
       
      Negative
  • In 2006, an Associated Press-America Online survey found that elementary school students have, on average, 78 minutes of homework each night, while middle school students spend close to 100 minutes doing their homework every weekday
  • Students were expected to commit to memory lists of vocabulary words and math equations, and then recite them in front of their class the following school day. Such assignments were geared almost exclusively toward older students, and commonly took two to three hours to complete; elementary-school-aged children received little or no homework
    • Michael T
      Michael T on 25 Mar 10
       
      Background Infromation
  • homework has generally enjoyed sustained acceptance. Most public school teachers assign at least some homework every night, and polling data show that most parents do not think their children are overburdened with homework.
    • Michael T
      Michael T on 25 Mar 10
       
      Background Infromation
  • Most studies seem to indicate that high school students spend, on average, roughly an hour on homework each night during the school week. A 2003 meta-analysis of homework-related studies compiled by the Brookings Institution, a centrist think tank, supported that assessment. Indeed, the report found that, throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the number of high school students who received no homework at all exceeded the number of those who averaged two hours or more per night.
  • A dditionally, homework critics point to evidence that a significant percentage of public school students suffer from an unreasonable volume of homework. In their book, Bennett and Kalish cite a 2006 study of a public high school in Needham, Mass. The study found that of the school's 1,300 students, roughly 18%--nearly one out of five students--said they spent at least four hours on homework each night.
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      Michael T on 25 Mar 10
       
      Harm
    • Michael T
      Michael T on 25 Mar 10
       
      Affirmative
    • Michael T
      Michael T on 25 Mar 10
       
      Negative
  • Assigning homework tells students that learning does not end once they leave school property, proponents assert. Intellectual development can occur anywhere and at any time, and homework effectively communicates that fact to developing minds, supporters say.
  • Writing an essay and conducting a science experiment, for example, are both extremely beneficial ways for students to gain a more total understanding of a certain subject, proponents say, but neither assignment is easily completed during classroom hours. Such assignments must be completed at home to be effective
  • homework they assigned between grades 7 and 11, they would boost their students' collective math comprehension by two full grade levels. That boost would in turn increase those students' average salaries by approximately 25% when they entered the workforce
    • Michael T
      Michael T on 25 Mar 10
       
      Inherency
  • Supporters of homework point to data that indicate that students watch less television now than they did in the early 1980s
  • One of the most important benefits of homework, proponents contend, is that it teaches children and young adults valuable lessons that extend far beyond the realms of math, science and literature. For example, having significant amounts of homework to complete every night teaches students the importance of time management--a skill that is crucial to success later in life, advocates assert.
  • Students must learn to focus their attention on work that they may not find entirely interesting, or risk a poor grade at school the next day. Even young children can benefit from such lessons, supporters assert.
    • Michael T
      Michael T on 25 Mar 10
       
      Affirmative
  • Most homework assignments are, indeed, of the busy-work variety, critics assert. When they are not repetitive "drill" assignments such as worksheets covered with math problems, homework assignments tend to be of questionable academic value, opponents claim
  • Another reason, they say, is that most students are simply overburdened with hours of work every night. "Large amounts of homework stifle motivation, diminish a child's love of learning, turn reading into a chore, negatively affect the quality of family time, diminish creativity and turn learning into drudgery,"
  • Additionally, homework teaches children how to manage their time, supporters argue, and it instills in them the discipline to perform tasks that they may not find inherently thrilling.
  • The sheer amount of homework that many students must complete each night essentially prevents them from participating in outside activities, critics say. And perhaps even worse: Children today are so bogged down with homework that they rarely have the opportunity to experience something as simple as boredom--which opponents argue can benefit a developing mind.
  • A January 2007 report by the American Academy of Pediatrics said that stress among children--and, consequently, obesity and depression--was on the rise and suggested that one of the reasons for that is that children today work too hard and play too little
  • Michael T on 25 Mar 10
     
    "Update: Homework." Issues & Controversies On File: n. pag. Issues & Controversies. Facts On File News Services, 2 Nov. 2007. Web. 25 Mar. 2010. .
Zachary G

Should Parents Help Their Children with Homework? (sidebar) - 1 views

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affirmative

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  • Some teachers actively encourage parents to become involved with homework assignments
  • Lisa Jacobsen, a mother and director of a tutoring business in New York City, says that during one parent-teacher conference she attended, she was told that "the only way to keep kids achieving at the high level expected by the school district is to teach at school and then have the kids go home and be drilled and helped and tutored by the parents."
    • Zachary G
      Zachary G on 25 Mar 10
       
      Good arguement for affirmative
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  • Nancy Kalish, co-author of the 2006 book The Case Against Homework, tells of a teacher in San Diego, Calif., who holds a math class for parents each Monday evening in order to tutor them in the concepts that their children are currently learning. The idea is to better enable parents to help their children with their homework and to prepare for tests and quizzes.
Lauren S

Low Expectations Hamper Public Education - 0 views

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affirmative harm

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  • Alternatives for Homework?
  • homework has more negative than positive effects.
  • distracts from quality family time
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  • blamed low report card grades at our school on homework
    • Lauren S
      Lauren S on 25 Mar 10
       
      Harm: hw has more negative effects, distracts from quality family time, parents do hw, not children, hw --> low report card grades
  • teachers overwhelmingly identify parental involvement as the most important improvement that could be made in education
  • I remember having to complete 35-40 math problems daily for homework. He countered that expectation was unrealistic in this day and time. Students simply will not go home and complete the homework.
    • Lauren S
      Lauren S on 25 Mar 10
       
      Too much hw overwhelms the students --> won't complete it --> grades drop
  • education experts disapprove of homework
  • Lauren S on 25 Mar 10
     
    http://find.galegroup.com/ovrc/infomark.do?contentSet=GSRC&docType=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T010&prodId=OVRC&docId=EJ3010129217&userGroupName=smithtown&version=1.0&searchType=BasicSearchForm&source=gale White, James. "Low Expectations Hamper Public Education." Opposing Viewpoints: Education. Ed. Mary E. Williams. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2000. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Gale. SMITHTOWN HIGH SCHOOL EAST. 25 Mar. 2010 .
Michael T

Homework: Statistical Update - 1 views

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Background Information Statistics

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      Michael T on 25 Mar 10
       
      Backgound information- Statistics
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  • 10-20
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  • 30-60
  • Percent of children age 9 who have less than an hour of homework per day2
  • Average minutes students spend on homework every night3
  • Average minutes high school students spend on homework every night3
  • College freshmen who reported spending more than 5 hours a week studying or doing homework as high school seniors in 20022
  • College freshmen who reported spending 5 hours or less on homework as high school seniors in 20022
  • Middle school students' parents who spend at least an hour a night helping them with homework4 59% Middle school students who have been unable to finish homework because an assignment was too difficult or they could not find anyone to help5
  • Middle school students' parents who spend at least an hour a night helping them with homework4
  • Middle school students who have been unable to finish homework because an assignment was too difficult or they could not find anyone to help5
  • "Homework: Statistical Update." Issues & Controversies On File: n. pag. Issues & Controversies. Facts On File News Services, 2 Nov. 2006. Web. 25 Mar. 2010. <http://www.2facts.com/article/ib600360>.
  • Michael T on 25 Mar 10
     
    Homework: Statistical Update." Issues & Controversies On File: n. pag. Issues & Controversies. Facts On File News Services, 2 Nov. 2006. Web. 25 Mar. 2010. .
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