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  1. Homework

    Homework is a set of tasks assigned to students by their teachers to be completed at home. Common homework assignments may include required reading, ... The debate has since persisted, with numerous books and articles being published on the advantages and disadvantages of homework concerning student learning. United Kingdom ...

  2. Homework Pros and Cons

    Tim Walker, "The Great Homework Debate: What's Getting Lost in the Hype," neatoday.org, Sep. 23, 2015: 4. University of Phoenix College of Education, "Homework Anxiety: Survey Reveals How Much Homework K-12 Students Are Assigned and Why Teachers Deem It Beneficial," phoenix.edu, Feb. 24, 2014: 5.

  3. Is Homework 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.". The accompanying story noted that the launch of Sputnik in 1957 led to a push ...

  4. Is Homework Valuable or Not? Try Looking at Quality Instead

    Here's another explanation: Many teachers believe homework should be for practicing known content, not learning something new. This is partially to help close the "homework gap" that ...

  5. Pro and Con: Homework

    CON. Too much homework can be harmful. Homework disadvantages low-income students. There is a lack of evidence that homework helps younger children. This article was published on February 25, 2022, at Britannica's ProCon.org, a nonpartisan issue-information source. Some say homework improves student achievement, reinforces learning a life ...

  6. Is homework a good idea or not?

    The Homework Debate: Adults face Newsround's children's panel. Generally, people agree that homework is good idea for children in secondary school.

  7. The Surprising History of Homework Reform

    One teacher proposed "homework" consisting of after-school "field trips to the woods, factories, museums, libraries, art galleries.". In 1937, Carleton Washburne, an influential educator who was the superintendent of the Winnetka, Illinois, schools, proposed a homework regimen of "cooking and sewing…meal planning…budgeting, home ...

  8. The Homework Debate: A Brief Summary

    Homework is generally agreed to be tasks "assigned to students by school teachers that are meant to be carried our during non-school hours" (Cooper, 1989, p. 7). The simplicity of this definition obscures the complexity of both the concept and implications of homework. There are also been extensive debates generated in educational contexts.

  9. Should We Get Rid of Homework?

    The authors believe this meritocratic narrative is a myth and that homework — math homework in particular — further entrenches the myth in the minds of teachers and their students.

  10. 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. "Every child should be doing homework, but the ...

  11. Homework

    homework. home·work / ˈhōmˌwərk / • n. schoolwork that a student is required to do at home. ∎ work or study done in preparation for a certain event or situation: he had evidently done his homework and read his predecessor's reports. ∎ paid work carried out in one's own home, esp. low-paid piecework.

  12. The Homework Dilemma: Who Invented Homework?

    The inventor of homework may be unknown, but its evolution reflects contributions from educators, philosophers, and students. Homework reinforces learning, fosters discipline, and prepares students for the future, spanning from ancient civilizations to modern education. Ongoing debates probe its balance, efficacy, equity, and accessibility, prompting innovative alternatives like project-based ...

  13. Homework

    A large debate surrounds the importance of homework and the time restraints it places on today's students. History of the Homework Debate. The debate over the importance of homework is not a new one. It has been debated since the late 1800s. Between the late 1800s and the mid 1900s some cities in the United States banned homework on the ...

  14. Debate: Do Kids Need Homework?

    Yes! Homework is a valuable tool that allows students to practice what we learned. Without it, we might forget what we were taught in class, and that could cause our grades to suffer. Plus, assignments show teachers whether or not kids understood the day's lessons. That alerts them to the areas where kids need help.

  15. PDF The Homework Debate: A Brief Summary

    The Homework Debate: A Brief Summary Dr Kylie Bradfield and Prof Mark Priestley University of Stirling Introduction Homework is generally agreed to be tasks "assigned to students by school teachers that are meant to be carried our during non-school hours" (Cooper, 1989, p.7). The simplicity of this

  16. Students are told not to use Wikipedia for research. But it's a

    Wikipedia is free, non-profit, and has been operating for over two decades, making it an internet success story. At a time when it's increasingly difficult to separate truth from falsehood ...

  17. Should kids have homework? Pros and cons of assignments

    Homework can also interfere with kids' household chores. Cheating is easy. Often students simply plagiarize their assignments from others or from the Internet and therefore the learning objectives of homework are not fulfilled. In occasions parents or older relatives do children's coursework. Sometimes homework is not well designed and do not ...

  18. Ending the Homework Debate: Expert Advice on What Works

    Skills developed through effective homework: Spaced repetition, retrieval practice, desirable difficulties, deliberate practice. Changing the entire functionality of the course isn't necessary, though, if instructors remember key features of effective homework as identified by the emerging field of Mind, Brain, and Education, says Annie ...

  19. Who Invented Homework and Why Was It Invented?

    Pliny the Younger: When in Ancient Rome. Mentions of the term "homework" date back to as early as ancient Rome. In I century AD, Pliny the Younger, an oratory teacher, supposedly invented homework by asking his followers to practice public speaking at home. It was to help them become more confident and fluent in their speeches.

  20. How false reports of homework overload in America have spread so far

    I was horrified by what I saw, delivered to millions of Wikipedia users: "High schoolers reported doing an average of 2.7 hours of homework per weeknight, according to a study by The Washington ...

  21. Wikipedia:Schools/Arguments

    A failed attempt at compromise is archived for historical purposes at Wikipedia:Schools (or Wikipedia talk:Schools :archives). This page is a list of commonly used arguments for or against schools. This is not meant as a debate, but as a convenient place where people can read about and try to understand the opinions on both sides of the issue.

  22. Wikipedia:Do your own homework

    Wikipedia:Do your own homework. Dear students: Wikipedia's users, editors, volunteers and administrators will not do your schoolwork or homework for you. Your teacher or professor assigned this work to you because they want you to figure out the answer, and find out how to find the answer. We have 6,755,322 articles on Wikipedia, and one of ...

  23. 2024 United States presidential debates

    The 2024 United States presidential debates are a series of scheduled debates between major candidates of the 2024 United States presidential election.Four general election debates sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates are scheduled to be held between September 16 and October 9, 2024. As of April 27, 2024, both major parties' presumptive nominees, Donald Trump and Joe Biden, have ...