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  1. Should We Get Rid of Homework?

    Should We Get Rid of Homework?

  2. Homework Pros and Cons

    Homework Pros and Cons - Should Homework Be Banned?

  3. Why Teachers Should Not Give Homework: A Closer Look

    Teachers should reconsider giving homework for several compelling reasons: Mental Health Impact: Homework can contribute to stress, anxiety, and even depression in students. Excessive workload and pressure to complete assignments within tight deadlines can take a toll on students' mental well-being. Family Time: Homework often cuts into ...

  4. This is why we should stop giving homework

    He is currently the Creative Director at the Human Restoration Project. Listening and learning from 400+ young people & educators. This is why we should stop giving homework. Chris McNutt. January 27, 2023. The United States must examine the underlying inequities of peoples' lives, rather than focus on increasing schools' workloads and ...

  5. Why more and more teachers are joining the anti-homework movement

    According to Alfie Kohn, author of " The Homework Myth," there's never a good excuse for making kids work a second shift of academics in elementary and middle school. "In high school, it ...

  6. Why teachers should give students less homework

    By reducing homework, students have proven to get more sleep which can lead to better physical and mental health. By reducing homework it allows for students to create a more balanced life at home. By reducing the homework load, students have proven to be more encouraged to learn. Teachers assigning less homework to students can lead to better ...

  7. More than two hours of homework may be counterproductive, research

    Pope and her colleagues found that too much homework can diminish its effectiveness and even be counterproductive. They cite prior research indicating that homework benefits plateau at about two hours per night, and that 90 minutes to two and a half hours is optimal for high school. • Greater stress: 56 percent of the students considered ...

  8. Does homework still have value? A Johns Hopkins education ...

    Does homework still have value? A Johns Hopkins education ...

  9. The Case for Homework

    The Case for Homework. Posted September 29, 2016. By Matt Weber. This fall, the start of the new school year seemingly brought with it a trend of teachers forgoing homework assignments in order to allow their students more time outside of school for family and play. A number of these announcements took off on social media, with many parents ...

  10. Is it time to get rid of homework? Mental health experts weigh in

    Some teachers are turning to social media to take a stand against homework. Tiktok user @misguided.teacher says he doesn't assign it because the "whole premise of homework is flawed."

  11. How to Improve Homework for This Year—and Beyond

    Rethinking Homework for This Year—and Beyond

  12. Does Homework Work?

    As many children, not to mention their parents and teachers, are drained by their daily workload, some schools and districts are rethinking how homework should work—and some teachers are doing ...

  13. Why does homework exist?

    Nobody knows what the point of homework is

  14. Is it time to get rid of homework? Mental health experts weigh in

    The answer may not be to eliminate homework completely, but to be more mindful of the type of work students go home with, suggests Kang, who was a high-school teacher for 10 years.

  15. Should Teachers Still Give Homework?

    The quantity of homework will vary greatly by grade level. Teachers will often operate by the " 10-minute rule " which recommends that a child should be assigned 10 minutes of homework for every grade they've passed. So a fifth grader would have 50 minutes of assigned work.

  16. The Pros and Cons of Homework

    The Pros and Cons: Should Students Have Homework?

  17. Why homework matters

    Homework is the perennial bogeyman of K-12 education. In any given year, you'll find people arguing that students, especially in elementary school, should have far less homework—or none at all. Eva Moskowitz, the founder and CEO of Success Academy charter schools, has the opposite opinion. She's been running schools for sixteen years, and she's only become more convinced that ...

  18. What's the Right Amount of Homework?

    What's the Right Amount of Homework?

  19. Are You Down With or Done With Homework?

    These days, nightly homework is a given in American schools, writes Kohn. "Homework isn't limited to those occasions when it seems appropriate and important. Most teachers and administrators aren't saying, 'It may be useful to do this particular project at home,'" he writes. "Rather, the point of departure seems to be, 'We've decided ahead of ...

  20. Does Homework Really Help Students Learn?

    Bempechat: I can't imagine that most new teachers would have the intuition Erin had in designing homework the way she did.. Ardizzone: Conversations with kids about homework, feeling you're being listened to—that's such a big part of wanting to do homework….I grew up in Westchester County.It was a pretty demanding school district. My junior year English teacher—I loved her—she ...

  21. Should Kids Get Homework?

    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 amount and type that they're doing ...

  22. Teachers should give out less homework

    Teachers should give out less homework because many students have other responsibilities outside of school and by reducing homework, students have proven to get more sleep which leads to better physical and mental health. So instead of benefiting students' learning, it can actually be detrimental to it. Faisa Mohamed, Staff WriterJanuary 9, 2023.

  23. Why Teachers Should Give Less Homework to Students?

    Here is how homework impacts our lives and why teachers should give less homework: Too Much Pressure. Life is going too much far from what we have thought in early 90's and thus children's now have a lot to learn about life. The Pressure onto children about completing homework is often too much to handle for them.

  24. I'm a teacher and believe that homework should be banned

    I'm a teacher and believe that homework should be banned California's trying to pass a law banning homework - we should too. September 6, 2024 6:00 am (Updated 6:02 am )