The End of Homework: How Homework Disrupts Families, Overburdens Children, and Limits Learning

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Etta Kralovec John Buell

The End of Homework

How Homework Disrupts Families, Overburdens Children, and Limits Learning

Etta Kralovec, John Buell

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Beacon Press
01 September 2018

Sociology: family & relationships; Organisation & management of education; Schools; Study & learning skills: general

Etta Kralovec and John Buell are educators who dared to challenge one of the most widely accepted practices in American schools. Their provocative argument first published in this book, featured in Time and Newsweek, in numerous women's magazines, on national radio and network television broadcasts, was the first openly to challenge the gospel of ""the more homework the better.""

Consider-
* In 1901, homework was legally banned in parts of the U.S. There are no studies showing that assigning homework before junior high school improves academic achievement.
* Increasingly, students and their parents are told that homework must take precedence over music lessons, religious education, and family and community activities. As the homework load increases (and studies show it is increasing) these family priorities are neglected.
* Homework is a great discriminator, effectively allowing students whose families ""have"" to surge ahead of their classmates who may have less.
* Backpacks are literally bone-crushing, sometimes weighing as much as the child. Isn't it obvious we're overburdening our kids?

By: Etta Kralovec, John Buell
Imprint: Beacon Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 162g
ISBN: 9780807042199
ISBN 10: 0807042196
Pages: 136
Publication Date: 01 September 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Etta Kralovec, a recent Fulbright Fellow, took her Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University. She was a high school teacher for over twelve years and professor of education and director of teacher education at the College of the Atlantic for eleven years. John Buell, author of Democracy by Other Means and Sustainable Democracy, took his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts. He has taught at the College of the Atlantic.

Reviews for The End of Homework: How Homework Disrupts Families, Overburdens Children, and Limits Learning

Is it possible that homework isn't good for kids? Dare we even consider such a shocking idea? . . . Does it make children, teachers, and parents angry at each other rather than allied with each other? --Deborah Meier, author of The Power of Their Ideas and Will Standards Save Public Education?, in her Mission Hill School News The increasing amount of homework may not be helping students to learn more; indeed, it often undermines the students' health, the development of personal interests, and the quality of family life. --Ted Sizer and Nancy Faust Sizer, authors of The Students Are Watching