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  1. Why more and more teachers are joining the anti …

    Barbara Tollison, a high school English teacher with nearly four decades in the classroom, stopped assigning homework five years ago. In lieu of writing papers, she asks her 10th graders in San...

  2. More than two hours of homework may be …

    A Stanford education researcher found that too much homework can negatively affect kids, especially their lives away from school, where family, friends and activities matter.

  3. Homework is pointless. Here’s what you should do …

    Homework has the potential to spoil the little downtime we have for one another, becoming another item on a seemingly infinite to-do list. Here’s how to deal with the dilemma.

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

    1:07. It's no secret that kids hate homework. And as students grapple with an ongoing pandemic that has had a wide range of mental health impacts, is it time schools start …

  5. Does homework still have value? A Johns Hopkins …

    However, as we discussed, some students stop doing homework. This leads, statistically, to results showing that doing homework or spending more minutes on homework is linked to higher student achievement. If slow or …

  6. Why does homework exist?

    According to a 2021 Pew survey, 25 percent of lower-income parents said their children, at some point, were unable to complete their schoolwork because they couldn’t access a computer at home; that...

  7. Should We Get Rid of Homework?

    Is homework, including the projects and writing assignments you do at home, an important part of your learning experience? Or, in your opinion, is it not a good use of time? Explain.