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The Case Against Homework: How Homework Is Hurting Children and What Parents Can Do About It |  | Authors: Sara Bennett, Nancy Kalish
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
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Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 030734018X
Dewey Decimal Number: 371.30281
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Publication Date: August 28, 2007
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Does assigning fifty math problems accomplish any more than assigning five? Is memorizing word lists the best way to increase vocabulary—especially when it takes away from reading time? And what is the real purpose behind those devilish dioramas?
The time our children spend doing homework has skyrocketed in recent years. Parents spend countless hours cajoling their kids to complete such assignments—often without considering whether or not they serve any worthwhile purpose. Even many teachers are in the dark: Only one of the hundreds the authors interviewed and surveyed had ever taken a course specifically on homework during training.
The truth, according to Sara Bennett and Nancy Kalish, is that there is almost no evidence that homework helps elementary school students achieve academic success and little evidence that it helps older students. Yet the nightly burden is taking a serious toll on America’s families. It robs children of the sleep, play, and exercise time they need for proper physical, emotional, and neurological development. And it is a hidden cause of the childhood obesity epidemic, creating a nation of “homework potatoes.”
In The Case Against Homework, Bennett and Kalish draw on academic research, interviews with educators, parents, and kids, and their own experience as parents and successful homework reformers to offer detailed advice to frustrated parents. You’ll find out which assignments advance learning and which are time-wasters, how to set priorities when your child comes home with an overstuffed backpack, how to talk and write to teachers and school administrators in persuasive, nonconfrontational ways, and how to rally other parents to help restore balance in your children’s lives.
Empowering, practical, and rigorously researched, The Case Against Homework shows how too much work is having a negative effect on our children’s achievement and development and gives us the tools and tactics we need to advocate for change.
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 Every teacher and parent should read this book! March 22, 2009
Eamonn O'brien
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
While I don't completely disagree with some of the comments about the specific evidence they provide, this is still a must read. The evidence in support of their arguments against homework is there; just do a Google search and you will find more studies and data than you can read in a lifetime. Homework is BAD for kids and families. There is NO proven correlation between homework and learning, so why is it still assigned? This book is a jumping off point; read it and then talk to your child's teachers. Or if you are teacher, learn how destructive your actions are. And I am not just crying sour grapes; I am teacher and a parent.
Just What The Parents Ordered January 19, 2007
R. Kohl (Sacramento, CA)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book was extraordinary in presenting multiple examples of how we as parents are feeling about the homework load our kids are being subjected to. All across the fruited plains are parents just like us who have trouble coping with the 'all work, no play' attitude that teachers and school districts are taking. If you follow the money, that is where it all starts; districts and teachers get paid bonuses and grants according to test scores, and they PUSH students so hard, it affects the livelihood of parents, students, and families. The fighting and stress that occur due to mounds of homeword do not need to happen, and this book provides some solid, possible solutions to this epidemic. Read the book and join the FIGHT!
Action Manual for Parents October 4, 2008
Mister Krinkles
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Unlike many books on education, The Case Against Homework is a true action manual, not content to merely lay out the convincing reasons that homework is almost always useless and even damaging, but spelling out in detail how to take a stand and bring about change in individual teachers, school-wide, and even throughout the system.
This eye-opening book will first make you angry, then make you take action.
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Finally! Someone willing to speak up and be heard. September 13, 2006
D41 (California)
13 out of 17 found this review helpful
I found this book useful in providing information on a topic that is having a negative impact on quality family time and the overall well-being of my children. I've had the opportunity to employ a few of the techniques in the book to help alleviate the insane workload my middle school child has been experiencing. Although I am not an advocate of a no homework policy I certainly do not subscribe to the "more is better" approach. If you care about letting your kids be kids without the stresses of being overburdened and overworked, read this book and do something. Our children deserve a childhood. As parents, it is our responsibility that it is not taken away from them.
Excessive Homework and Medication Part of the Same Problem September 9, 2006
Peter V. Loffredo (Brooklyn, NY, USA)
11 out of 15 found this review helpful
As a psychotherapist who has worked with children and adults of all ages for 30 years, and as a 3-time parent, I applaud "The Case Against Homework." Loudly! Children naturally want to learn, and learn a lot, but they learn best when the environment is providing stimulating opportunities for new knowledge to be taken in, not under intense pressure or chronic fatigue. The excessive amounts of homework being given by schools today coincides with the excessive amounts of medication being given to younger and younger children, promoted under the guise of making them "perform" better. In fact, the homework and drugs are a function of the laziness and lack of responsibility of our educational institutions, along with a genuine lack of resources making inspired teaching so difficult. Sara Bennett and Nancy Kalish offer a very lucid argument against one aspect of this madness. They are true advocates for children and parents alike. Hopefully, this book will represent a turning point.
Sincerely,
Peter Loffredo, LCSW
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