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  2. Homework: A New User's Guide

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  4. How Much Homework Do American Kids Do?

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  5. Are Students in the United States Getting Too Much Homework? [Infographic]

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  6. Homework: How much is too much?

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  1. What's the Right Amount of Homework?

    The National PTA and the National Education Association support the " 10-minute homework guideline "—a nightly 10 minutes of homework per grade level. But many teachers and parents are quick to point out that what matters is the quality of the homework assigned and how well it meets students' needs, not the amount of time spent on it.

  2. 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 Postfrom 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 freshmen ...

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

    Pope and her colleagues found that too much homework can diminish its effectiveness and even be counterproductive. They cite prior research indicating that homework benefits plateau at about two hours per night, and that 90 minutes to two and a half hours is optimal for high school. • Greater stress: 56 percent of the students considered ...

  4. 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).

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

    The necessity of homework has been a subject of debate since at least as far back as the 1890s, according to Joyce L. Epstein, co-director of the Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships at Johns Hopkins University. "It's always been the case that parents, kids—and sometimes teachers, too—wonder if this is just busy work ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. What's the Right Amount of Homework? Many Students Get Too Little

    A widely endorsed metric for how much homework to assign is the 10-minute rule. It dictates that children should receive 10 minutes of homework per grade level—so a 1st grader would be given 10 ...

  8. A New Report Reveals That Homework in the United States is ...

    October 1, 2003. Two new reports debunk the notion that U.S. schoolchildren suffer from a growing homework load, with little time to play and just be kids. The great majority of students at all ...

  9. Does Homework Work?

    Cooper conducted a review of the existing research on homework in the mid-2000s, and found that, up to a point, the amount of homework students reported doing correlates with their performance on ...

  10. How Important Is Homework, And How Much Should Parents Help?

    What is the "right" amount of homework? Research suggests that homework should not exceed 1.5 to 2.5 hours per night for high school students and no more than one hour per night for middle school students. Homework for elementary school students should be minimal and assigned with the aim of building self-regulation and independent work skills.

  11. Research Trends: Why Homework Should Be Balanced

    Why Homework Should Be Balanced. Homework can boost learning, but doing too much can be detrimental. The National PTA and National Education Association support the "10-minute homework rule," which recommends 10 minutes of homework per grade level, per night (10 minutes for first grade, 20 minutes for second grade, and so on, up to two ...

  12. How to Deal With Tons of Homework: 11 Tips for Success

    1. Take a break now and then. You might think that tearing through all of your homework tasks from start to finish is the fastest way to do it. If you have a ton of homework, however, you'll probably get burnt out if you don't take a break every now and then. At least every two hours, take a 15 minute breather.

  13. Does homework really work?

    After two hours, however, achievement doesn't improve. For high schoolers, Cooper's research suggests that two hours per night is optimal. If teens have more than two hours of homework a night, their academic success flatlines. But less is not better. The average high school student doing homework outperformed 69 percent of the students in ...

  14. Countries Who Spend the Most Time Doing Homework

    Russia followed, where students had an average of 9.7 hours of homework per week. Finland had the least amount of homework hours with 2.8 hours per week, followed closely by South Korea with 2.9 hours. Among all the countries tested, the average homework time was 4.9 hours per week.

  15. How Much Homework Do American Kids Do?

    In the 2002-2003 school year, a study out of the University of Michigan found that American students ages six through 17 spent three hours and 38 minutes per week doing homework. A range of ...

  16. Does Homework Really Help Students Learn?

    When teachers assign homework they forget that the students have other classes that give them the same amount of homework each day. Students need to work on social skills and life skills. Link E MAN69. May 10, 2021 at 12:29 pm I disagree. Link tyson. February 24, 2022 at 3:18 pm i agree. Link Paliki. April 5, 2021 at 1:01 pm ...

  17. Homework Pros and Cons

    Con 3. Homework does not help younger students, and may not help high school students. We've known for a while that homework does not help elementary students. A 2006 study found that "homework had no association with achievement gains" when measured by standardized testsresults or grades.

  18. Homeroom: How Much Homework Is Too Much?

    Email them at [email protected]. Dear Abby and Brian, My son, who is in ninth grade, is a really good student, but I'm worried he's working far too much. He does an average of five or ...

  19. Do our kids have too much homework?

    Further muddying the waters is an AP/AOL poll that suggests that most Americans feel that their children are getting the right amount of homework. It found that 57% of parents felt that their child was assigned about the right amount of homework, 23% thought there was too little and 19% thought there was too much. One indisputable fact

  20. 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 ...

  21. Should Kids Get Homework?

    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 amount and type that they're doing ...

  22. Homework in America

    The categories representing the most amount of homework were "more than one hour" for age 9 and "more than two hours" for ages 13 and 17. In 2004, 12% of 9-year-olds said they had more ...

  23. Review: The End of Homework: How Homework Disrupts Families

    Not only does homework rarely demonstrate large, if any, academic gains for testing, there are many negative impacts on the family that are often ignored. Countries that assigned the least amount of homework: Denmark, Czech Republic, had higher test scores than those with the most amount of homework: Iran, Thailand.