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Homework. It sends chills up and down the spines of both students and parents. As a parent, I’ve spent evenings sitting at the kitchen table with a defeated, weary, weepy child on more than a handful of occasions. Oh, and as an eighth-grade teacher I assign it nearly every night of the school week.
So where is the balance? Research says there should be limits and rules about assigning homework — if there are it is a benefit to students.
In Robert Marzano’s “The Art and Science of Teaching,” the author cites a score of studies, concluding, according to a 2006 study: “…doing homework causes improved academic achievement.”
However, Marzano cites another study that indicates “the benefits of homework for young children may not be immediately evident but exist nonetheless.”
Junior high and high school students benefit the most when they do one to two hours of homework per night, spending...
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