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Too Much Homework Can Be Counterproductive
Spy der Mann writes "An interesting study made by to two Penn State researchers shows that increases in homework may actually hinder educational achievement (Coral Cache) instead of improving it. The researchers analyzed a large amount of data collected by the Third International Study of Mathematics and Sciences (TIMSS) in 1994 from schools in 41 nations across the fourth, eighth and 12th grades. For some analyses, they used data from an identical study carried out in '99." From the article: "An unintended consequence may be that those children who need extra work and drill the most are the ones least likely to get it. Increasing homework loads is likely to aggravate tensions within the family, thereby generating more inequality and eroding the quality of overall education."
all the 12 year olds who do no homework (and read /. all night) to reply and say they agree
They were just doing their homework.
:D sorry)
(and no, there isn't a '-1, Corny' moderation option
Nice try, but that excuse never worked for me when I was in school.
You're missing the point here.
Paying 2.5$ or more for an answer is not the way to egaletarian society. We need a truely affordable service if we want to make such a service accessible for the poor as well, and bridge the gap.
We are in the 21th centuty. We live in a globalized world.
What we need to to harness the power of the global economy. What we need is "Homework sweetshops", where kids in other parts of the world, earning 0.5$ a day, would solve your homework for 0.05$!
Isn't it a fine, nobel vision?
Funny, I took it as a fist in the air:
"Politics is really gay [so get used to it]," or
"Politics is really gay [and we vote]."
I love that donkey. Hell, I love everybody.