Beyond the logistical issues, homework can negatively impact physical health and stress — and once again this may be a more significant problem among economically disadvantaged youth who typically have a higher stress level than their non-poor peers to begin with.
Yet, today, it is not just the disadvantaged who suffer from the stressors that homework inflicts. More difficult to believe is the growing consensus that children on the other end of the spectrum, children raised in affluence, may also be at risk. When it comes to health and stress it is clear that excessive homework, for children at both ends of the spectrum, can be damaging.
Which begs the question, how much homework is too much homework? The National Education Association and the National Parent Teacher Association recommend that students spend 10 minutes per grade level per night on homework.
That means that first graders should spend 10 minutes on homework, second graders 20 minutes and so on. If you take too much, they can kill you. Follow Redbook on Instagram. Type keyword s to search. Getty Images. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses.
Bombarded with too many assignments at school and at home, students may feel anxiety and pressure about failing to deliver a task on time. Instead of being stressed struggling with a self-guided work, they should learn educational material in a classroom setting and explore other things when outside school. Modern children are busy as never before. They spend too much time at school; then many of them run to tutors, participate in an extracurricular activity, and explore their talents.
The schedule is strictly regulated; every hour is counted and planned. Adding an extra item to this to-do list will simply eat up the time of a student. And this is what home assignments do. Children learn foreign languages, programming, mathematics, and many other disciplines, but they have no time to explore the world and learn practical life skills. Our learning resource is quite limited; a child is not able to learn too much information no matter how much we want him to do.
Little kids need no more than twenty minutes of additional classes, while for adults, this time is equal to one and a half hours. With the amount of homework assigned to students, they do not have a chance to process all the information and deliver tasks on time. After many years of studying, graduates lack practical life skills and do not know how to cope with some standard real-life situations. How involved should parents be? And does it really matter if it doesn't get done? Recent years have seen a swell of support for ditching homework altogether; more than one teacher has gone semi-viral for sharing a no-homework policy that prioritizes family time, outdoor play, and early bedtimes.
And some schools have adopted no-homework programs, encouraging students to enjoy their evening free time and in some cases lengthening the school day to provide more classroom instruction. Unbeknownst to many, there is an unofficial homework standard — the "minute rule" that was first proposed by Duke University psychology professor Harris Cooper and is supported by the National PTA and the National Education Association.
It's simple: a daily maximum of 10 minutes of homework per grade level. First graders do 10 minutes of homework each night; second graders do 20 minutes; third graders do 30 minutes, and so on. Cooper is responsible for the most comprehensive research on homework to date. His meta-analysis, published in the Review of Educational Research , found evidence that students who did homework performed better in school. However, the correlation was stronger for students in seventh through 12th grade.
In earlier grades, the relationship between homework and performance was weak.
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