CheetahCountrySurprise #5 There is no assigned homework! "If you don't assign homework, how can she be ready to handle the work when she gets to college?" asked a prospective parent". I paused. Smiling I asked, "is it true that if students stay at school longer and then do more work at home they will be more prepared for college? He smiled and asked, "yes ?". "No", I said smiling. Let's break this down. The average public school, state-mandated history course for eleventh or twelfth graders requires 250 minutes of class a week under a traditional year-long period schedule or 410 minutes in a block schedule with the course ending mid year. The National PTA's meta-analysis of nationwide homework practices showed the recommended homework time to be an average of ten minutes of at-home work per grade level number; grade 1 ten minutes, grade 9 ninety-minutes-Mon-Thurs. A later study showed that homework had no affect on overa...
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