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Amount of homework required
A review of over 60 research studies showed that there is a positive correlation
between the amount of homework done and student achievement. The research
synthesis also showed that too much homework could be extremely
counterproductive. Homework overload can cause kids to "burn out". The research
supports the "10-minute rule", the commonly accepted practice of assigning
10-minutes of homework per day per grade-level. For example, under this system,
1st-graders would receive 10-minutes of homework per night, while 5th-graders
would get 50-minutes worth, 9th-graders 90-minutes of homework, etc. Some
students, however, receive up to 5 times that on some days.
“Large amounts of homework stifle motivation, diminish a child’s love of
learning, turn reading into a chore, negatively affect the quality of family
time, diminish creativity, and turn learning into drudgery,” - David Ackerman,
Principal, Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan.
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