Similarly, the Center for Public Education stresses that “homework appears to provide more academic benefits to older students than to younger students.” Professor John Hattie, an educational researcher, found that the benefit of homework for children in elementary schools is negligible. Myth #2: Starting homework early in life improves academic performance. Surpass this number, and the effectiveness, or “academic boost” of homework decreases.
These numbers are understandable, as surely we can all recall our younger siblings or cousins, whose attention spans are far shorter than ours. Children in grades three through six should do 30 to 60 minutes of homework each night, middle school students should do about 90 minutes, and high schoolers should do 90 to 150 minutes. From our research, four central myths have emerged.Īccording to a study done at Duke University, the optimal amount of homework assigned to children, unsurprisingly, is not “as much as possible.” There are health-related limits.Ĭhildren from kindergarten to second grade should do only about 10 to 20 minutes of homework per night. So, is homework worth it? What are the actual facts about homework? Does it actually comprise the yellow-brick road to a happy, successful future? To answer those questions, we need to do some homework on homework. All the while, we carry on, hoping that all these hours spent on homework will one day add up to success and satisfaction later in life.Īs such, we high-school students are not surprised by the findings of Stanford Graduate School of Education’s survey of high-performing California high schools: 56% of students indicated homework “a primary source of stress.” (HHS students took an earlier version of this survey during the 2018-19 school year.) We spend countless hours doing homework, all the while grumbling to our peers that homework is nothing but excessive “busy work,” unessential in our broader search for knowledge. Ask any Harriton student what their biggest source of after-school stress is, and homework will be the answer every time.Īs the clock ticks away into the wee hours of the night, many a high schooler across America will find themselves bent, exhausted, over a textbook, scrambling to finish their science notes or memorizing lines for their foreign language dialogue.
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