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  1. What's the Right Amount of Homework?

    As young children begin school, the focus should be on cultivating a love of learning, and assigning too much homework can undermine that goal. And young students often don't have the study skills to benefit fully from homework, so it may be a poor use of time (Cooper, 1989; Cooper et al., 2006; Marzano & Pickering, 2007). A more effective ...

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

    In places where students attend high-performing schools, too much homework can reduce their time to foster skills in the area of personal responsibility, the researchers concluded. "Young people are spending more time alone," they wrote, "which means less time for family and fewer opportunities to engage in their communities." Student perspectives

  3. Homework: Is It Good for Kids? Here's What the Research Says

    A TIME cover in 1999 read: "Too much homework! How it's hurting our kids, and what parents should do about it." How it's hurting our kids, and what parents should do about it."

  4. Stanford research shows pitfalls of homework

    March 10, 2014 Stanford research shows pitfalls of homework. A Stanford researcher found that students in high-achieving communities who spend too much time on homework experience more stress ...

  5. Homework Pros and Cons

    In the 1930s, homework was portrayed as child labor, which was newly illegal, but the prevailing argument was that kids needed time to do household chores. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 45 ] [ 46 ] Public opinion swayed again in favor of homework in the 1950s due to concerns about keeping up with the Soviet Union's technological advances during the Cold War .

  6. Key Lessons: What Research Says About the Value of Homework

    Too much homework may diminish its effectiveness. While research on the optimum amount of time students should spend on homework is limited, there are indications that for high school students, 1½ to 2½ hours per night is optimum. Middle school students appear to benefit from smaller amounts (less than 1 hour per night).

  7. Is homework a necessary evil?

    Beyond that point, kids don't absorb much useful information, Cooper says. In fact, too much homework can do more harm than good. Researchers have cited drawbacks, including boredom and burnout toward academic material, less time for family and extracurricular activities, lack of sleep and increased stress.

  8. Does Homework Work?

    The 21st century has so far been a homework-heavy era, with American teenagers now averaging about twice as much time spent on homework each day as their predecessors did in the 1990s. Even little ...

  9. Should Kids Get Homework?

    Too much, however, is harmful. And homework has a greater positive effect on students in secondary school (grades 7-12) than those in elementary. ... Homework that's overly time-consuming.

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

    For older students, Kang says, homework benefits plateau at about two hours per night. "Most students, especially at these high achieving schools, they're doing a minimum of three hours, and it's ...

  11. How to Do Homework: 15 Expert Tips and Tricks

    You finish one episode, then decide to watch another even though you've got SAT studying to do. It's just more fun to watch people make scones. D. Start the episode, but only catch bits and pieces of it because you're reading Twitter, cleaning out your backpack, and eating a snack at the same time. 5.

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

    "They should tell their teachers when a homework assignment just took too much time or if it was too difficult for them to do on their own," she says. "It's good to speak up and ask those ...

  13. Students spend three times longer on homework than average, survey

    High schoolers reported doing an average of 2.7 hours of homework per weeknight, according to a study by the Washington Post from 2018 to 2020 of over 50,000 individuals. A survey of approximately 200 Bellaire High School students revealed that some students spend over three times this number. The demographics of this survey included 34 ...

  14. Homework Time Calculator

    The Homework Time Calculator uses a straightforward formula to estimate the total time needed for completing multiple assignments: Total Time (in minutes) = ∑ (Individual Assignment Times) In this formula: "Total Time" represents the combined time needed for all assignments. "∑" denotes the summation symbol, meaning you add up the ...

  15. Is Homework a Waste of Time? Teachers Weigh In

    Beyond considering the efficacy of homework, the debate over how much time students should spend daily on take-home assignments dates back to the early 1900s. The public furor even led some state ...

  16. When is Homework Too Much

    Too much homework can actually take the time you need for your emotional and mental development. In most cases, it can actually be counterproductive to your health and learning. If you feel like you sacrifice too much time doing homework, do know that you can seek help from a professional. Too much homework is just not worth it if it means that ...

  17. What's the right amount of homework for my students?

    With too much homework, family time is replaced by homework time, especially when parents have to help their children with their work. In this scenario, parents spend their time in the afternoons and evenings policing schoolwork rather than nurturing family bonds in important ways. The education level of parents also plays a role.

  18. Homework

    A 2019 nationally representative survey of 95,505 freshmen at U.S. colleges, conducted by the UCLA Higher Education Research Institute, asked respondents, "During your last year in high school, how much time did you spend during a typical week studying/doing homework?" 1.9% of respondents said none, 7.4% said less than one hour, 19.5% said 1 ...

  19. How much homework is too much?

    Many districts follow the guideline of 10 minutes per grade level. This is a good rule of thumb and can be modified for specific students or subjects that need more or less time for assignments. This can also be helpful to gauge if you are providing too much (or too little) homework. Consider surveying your students on how much time is needed ...

  20. 11 Surprising Homework Statistics, Facts & Data (2024)

    A 2018 study of 27,500 parents around the world found that the average amount of time parents spend on homework with their child is 6.7 hours per week. Furthermore, 25% of parents spend more than 7 hours per week on their child's homework. ... That's almost as much homework as there are hours in the school day. The only activity that teens ...

  21. Homework in America

    Responses indicating no homework on the "usual" question in 2004 were: 2% for age 9-year-olds, 5% for 13 year olds, and 12% for 17-year-olds. These figures are much less than the ones reported ...

  22. How Much Time Should Be Spent on Homework?

    In high school students will receive four to five sets of homework per week, taking them between seventy-five and 150 minutes per set to complete. As children progress through school, homework and the amount of time engaged in homework increases in importance. Due to the significance of homework at the older age levels, it is not surprising ...

  23. How teens spend their time is changing, but boys and girls still differ

    This pattern has held steady over the past decade, as the amount of time spent on homework has risen equally for boys and girls. When it comes to the amount of time spent on housework, the differences between boys and girls reflect gender dynamics that are also evident among adults. Teenage girls spend 38 minutes a day, on average, helping ...

  24. Why did Poland get rid of homework in primary schools?

    Children in Poland attend primary school from ages seven to 15. Critics of the current curriculum argue that it is overloaded with content and that homework was taking up too much of children's ...

  25. Use of ChatGPT for schoolwork among US teens

    About 1 in 5 U.S. teens who've heard of ChatGPT have used it for schoolwork. By. Olivia Sidoti and Jeffrey Gottfried. (Maskot/Getty Images) Roughly one-in-five teenagers who have heard of ChatGPT say they have used it to help them do their schoolwork, according to a new Pew Research Center survey of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17.

  26. Will Trump Go to Prison if He Is Convicted?

    Further, if Mr. Trump is convicted, he will undoubtedly appeal, a process that could take months or longer. Mr. Trump could first take the case to the Appellate Division in Manhattan, and ...

  27. Opinion: It's time to change the way we think about sociopaths

    Todd Thompson. An interesting thing happens with Andrew Scott's portrayal of Tom Ripley in the gorgeous new Netflix adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel: He almost disappears into Ripley ...

  28. Giving baby squirrels and other injured wildlife a second chance

    A volunteer at City Wildlife in Washington, D.C. feeds a baby squirrel with formula. The center helps rehabilitate animals that are injured or orphaned. In a nondescript warehouse in Washington, D ...

  29. Ryan Garcia vs. Devin Haney date, time, odds, weigh in

    Height: Haney 5-8, Garcia 5-8 1/2. Reach: Haney 72, Garcia 70. Record: Haney 31-0, Garcia 24-1. KOs: Haney 16, Garcia 20. Bret Bloomquist can be reached at [email protected] ...

  30. What Sentencing Could Look Like if Trump Is Found Guilty

    The case focuses on alleged interference in the 2016 election, which consisted of a hush-money payment Michael Cohen, the former president's fixer at the time, made in 2016 to a porn star ...