Is Homework Beneficial?
In today’s educational system, homework is a contentious issue. Students, even the best of them, will generally resist doing it, parents will sometimes feel at a loss about how to help their children with it, and though most teachers still feel that it is important to assign it, many are beginning to doubt its efficacy. Even the research about homework is equivocal: The studies which have been undertaken cannot agree about whether or not homework actually improves academic performance, both in terms of grades and in terms of other academic measures such as standardized testing. Some school systems have so much doubt about its value that they have dispensed with it altogether.
In today’s educational system, homework is a contentious issue. Students, even the best of them, will generally resist doing it, parents will sometimes feel at a loss about how to help their children with it, and though most teachers still feel that it is important to assign it, many are beginning to doubt its efficacy. Even the research about homework is equivocal: The studies which have been undertaken cannot agree about whether or not homework actually improves academic performance, both in terms of grades and in terms of other academic measures such as standardized testing. Some school systems have so much doubt about its value that they have dispensed with it altogether.
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