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“He figures that on school days he spends ‘maybe an hour on homework tops.’ He doesn’t think homework helps much because he mostly learns from paying attention in class. ‘I get it done because it’s another grade that helps me get an A.’”

Source of quotes: Jermalle Johns, sophomore student

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“There is questionable academic benefit to homework at any age, especially in younger kids.”

Source of quote: Alfie Kohn, author of “The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too

Much of a Bad Thing”

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“We really want kids to go home at 4 o’clock tired. We want their brain to be tired. We want them to enjoy their families. We want them to go to soccer practice or football practice, and we want them to go to bed. And that’s it.”

Source of quote: Jackie Glasheen, principal at Kelly Elementary School in

Massachusetts. Her school is piloting a no-homework policy, lengthening the school day

by 2 hours.

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“The most comprehensive research on homework to date comes from a 2006 meta-analysis by Duke University psychology professor Harris Cooper, who found evidence of a positive correlation between homework and student achievement, meaning students who did homework performed better in school. The correlation was stronger for older students--in seventh through 12th grade--than those for younger grades, for whom there was a weak relationship between homework and performance.”

Source: Time article, “Is Homework Good for Kids? Here’s What the Research Says,”

written by Katie Rei

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“Harris Cooper at Duke University has done some of the best work on homework. He and his team reviewed dozens of studies, from 1987 to 2003, looking for consensus on what works and what doesn’t. A common rule of thumb, he says, is what’s called the 10-minute rule. Take the child’s grade and simply multiply by 10. So first-graders should have roughly 10 minutes of homework per night, 40 minutes for fourth-graders, on up to two hours for seniors in high school. A lot of schools use this. Even the National PTA officially endorses it.”

Source: “What Kinds of Homework Seem to be Most Effective?,” by Cory Turner, NPR

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Take the child’s grade and simply multiply by 10. So first-graders should have roughly 10 minutes of homework per night, 40 minutes for fourth-graders, on up to two hours for seniors in high school. A lot of schools use this. Even the National PTA officially endorses it.”

Source: “What Kinds of Homework Seem to be Most Effective?,” by Cory Turner, NPR

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Take the child’s grade and simply multiply by 10. So first-graders should have roughly 10 minutes of homework per night, 40 minutes for fourth-graders, on up to two hours for seniors in high school. A lot of schools use this. Even the National PTA officially endorses it.”

Source: “What Kinds of Homework Seem to be Most Effective?,” by Cory Turner, NPR

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“A 2012 report from the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development pegged the U.S. homework load for 15-year-olds at around six hours per week. That’s just above the study’s average. It found that students in Hong Kong are also doing about six hours a week. Much of Europe checks in between four and five hours a week. In Japan, it’s four hours. And Korea’s near the bottom, three hours.”

Source: “What Kinds of Homework Seem to be Most Effective?,” by Cory Turner, NPR

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“Educators should realize that homework sets up a pattern of dependence that continues throughout the school years, rather than instilling responsibility and self-discipline as they claim.”

Source: New York Times Room for Debate, “Don’t Bother, Homework is Pointless,”

written by Sara Bennett , co-author of "The Case Against Homework: How Homework Is

Hurting Children and What Parents Can Do About It."

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“‘I felt my child was doing quite fine in school. My daughter’s school day is already 6 ½ hours, with a 20 minute recess. I felt 10 to 20 minutes of homework a night was not accomplishing anything.”

Source of quote: Amy Cliptson, a chemist with three children. Her daughter attends a highly competitive elementary school in Pennsylvania

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“Correlation is not causation. Does homework cause achievement, or do high achievers do more homework?”

Source of quote: Cathy Vatterott, education professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis

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“Some studies have shown China and India pulling ahead in educating young people. But a growing number of critics say the idea that America can close the learning gap with those countries by stuffing kids’ backpacks with math worksheets as early as kindergarten is backfiring. Instead, they say it increases worry and takes time away from sleep. And they say there is little scientific evidence students are actually learning more from the reams of homework.”

Source: Newsela article, “More Parents, Schools Trying to Dig Out of Piles of

Homework”

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“The 2012 college freshmen survey questioned students about their last year of high school. Students were asked to list how much time they spent per week on various activities. Nearly two-thirds said they had spent six or more hours a week socializing with friends. But only 38.4 percent spent that same amount of time on studying or homework during their last year of high school. And homework not only came in behind socializing. It also trailed exercise or sports or working for pay.”

Source of data from three surveys: National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP)

student survey, MetLife annual survey of parents and students, and a UCLA survey of

college freshmen