SOCB58H3 Study Guide - Alfie Kohn
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Alfie kohn the homework myth: why our kids get too much of a bad thing. Schools have adopted homework policies specifying that children at a given grade level be required to do a set number of minutes of some kind of schoolwork at home. February 2004 issue of parents magazine includes an article that uncritically accepts the proposition that all children should be given homework beginning in first grade. Most striking tend regarding homework in the past 2 decades is the tendency to pile more and more of it on younger and younger children. The proportion of 6-8 year olds assigned homework is now almost the same as that for 9- Parents of teenagers report being astounded by how much more homework their kids get compared with what they themselves were required to do a generation ago and many are struck by how much more difficult these assignments seem.
