The homework crisis that isn't

The homework crisis that isn't
A new report from the Brookings Institution finds reports of American students overwhelmed with homework to be overblown. In fact, homework loads have been stable over the past 30 years, and the "homework wars" themselves are a century old. While today's younger students have more homework than in the past -- NAEP data for age 9 indicate those with no homework declined from 35 percent in 1984 to 22 percent in 2012 -- 13-year-olds reporting one to two hours of work per night declined from 29 percent in 1984 to 23 percent in 2012. Those with less than an hour of homework per night increased from 36 to 44 percent. Seventeen-year-olds reporting no homework grew from 22 percent in 1984 to 27 percent in 2012, and 11 percent reported not doing homework at all. Different data show only 38.4 percent of college freshmen surveyed by UCLA in 2012 reported six hours per week of studying when high school seniors. And the MetLife annual survey of teachers, which in 1987 and 2007 included questions on homework and sampled opinions of parents, found little change over two decades in parental attitudes. Sixty percent of parents rated the amount of homework good or excellent, and two-thirds gave high ratings to quality. Those giving poor ratings to either quantity or quality of homework did not exceed 10 percent in either year. Loveless concludes that "homework horror stories... seem to originate from the very personal discontents of a small group of parents." More

Source:  Public Education News Blast

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