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\"\"Hello.\u00a0 Let’s explore the old debate regarding the value of homework! \u00a0After spending six hours of the day in school, children are typically given additional assignments to be completed at home. There are those who feel children are overburdened with homework!\u00a0 And there are parents who want homework and feel pressed to improve their child’s achievement.<\/p>\n

Polls ask if students are assigned the right amount of homework.\u00a0 But opinions cannot tell us whether homework works. Only research can.\u00a0 I wrote a research paper on Homework as part of my Master’s degree at SFU (which is too long to include here). It looks at the leading researcher on homework (Harris Cooper), as well as the most outspoken critic of homework (Alfie Kohn) in an effort to answer, \u201cIs homework too much of a bad thing?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

I will share a few tidbits with you…..<\/p>\n

(see the drop-down menus under HOMEWORK HELP HUB).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello.\u00a0 Let’s explore the old debate regarding the value of homework! \u00a0After spending six hours of the day in school, children are typically given additional assignments to be completed at home. There are those who feel children are overburdened with homework!\u00a0 And there are parents who want homework and feel pressed to improve their child’s achievement. Polls ask if students<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6537,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/smithjoanne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/315"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/smithjoanne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/smithjoanne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/smithjoanne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/smithjoanne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/smithjoanne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5678,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/smithjoanne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/315\/revisions\/5678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/smithjoanne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}