how do you get proficient at math and physics unless you practice it??? homework is practiceI never was a fan of homework for school kids....if you spend 6 or 7 hours per day in school...you should never need homework....our schools waste so much time and money if they cannot educate kids with that many hours per day/week/year/lifetime
If there is so much homework...you are better off home-schooling instead
Hollande’s reasons are wrong....but homework really needs to be reduced. In this day and age of computers...I want kids to their schoolwork in school...not at home on a computer
When this plan doesn’t work, next there will be a law preventing parents from making their kids do anything remotely educational outside of school. No museums, no reading, no crosswords or math puzzles and all will be required to watch Jersey Shore on TV.
I agree somewhat.
The assignment of much if not most of the learning to be done at home enables the burden for learning and the blame for failure to be placed squarely on parents instead of the school.
Our most efficient schooling occurred historically when parents had no education at all, and had not the ability to help their children. Without homework assignments, parents still have the option to aid their kids in their education.
"What did you learn today?" Time could still be spent on education in the home, the absence of formal homework assignments does not prevent this.
There simply is no correlation between the quantity of homework assignments and the quality of education.
The most damaging myth however, in our education system is the belief that class size is the be-all-end-all, the critical factor. The belief in this myth gives us the constant clamor for more teachers. This meets union objectives, and has less to do with education quality than is generally believed. In Japan the average class size is 61.
De-centralizing the education system, allowing for more autonomy to set disciplinary standards, curriculi, and testing standards would do more to improve the outcomes. Teachers are ham-strung, with no freedom to innovate and adapt.
I would be willing to say that teachers SHOULD be paid more, and school districts would be able to pay more, if the teachers unions would stop clamoring for more teachers. If increasing quantity were to engender a corresponding increase in quality, then a retailer of any stripe would be able to increase sales merely by hiring more salespeople.
how do you get proficient at math and physics unless you practice it??? homework is practice