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Why Homework Is Important

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"As the new school year begins, administrators, teachers, students and parents will once again face the battle over the value of homework." We should know that homework has great value, but the kind of homework that is given and the amount of homework that tends to be at the heart of the war. When we are given homework there's always a time that we get a large amount of homework that will take forever to finish. For students, lengthy homework tasks tends to frustrate them. This also creates problems for teachers when kids either can't or won't complete the task, thereby stopping the teacher's efforts to continue instruction the next day because he/she counted on homework completion. The teachers need to focus on giving the kids not a large …show more content…

Duke University analyzed dozens of homework studies conducted during 2012 to examine whether homework is beneficial and what amount of homework is appropriate for our children. The homework question is best answered by comparing students assigned homework with students assigned no homework who are similar in other ways. "The results students who had homework, performed better on class tests compared to those who did not", according to Duke University. However, 35 less rigorous (correlational) studies suggest little or no relationship between homework and achievement for elementary school students. The average correlation between time spent on homework and achievement was substantial for secondary school students, but for elementary school students, it hovered around no relationship at all. Why might that be? Younger children have less developed study habits and are less able to tune out distractions at home. Studies also suggest that young students who are struggling in school take more time to complete homework assignments simply because these assignments are more difficult for them. From the research that has been shown, homework is very beneficial, but the amount of homework needs to be lowered and that leads to the next

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