Show 62 The Case Against Homework: How Homework Is Hurting Our Children and What We Can Do About It. Dennis Prager talks to Nancy Kalish, former senior editor at Child and columnist for Redbook. Her new book with co-author, Sara Bennett, is The Case Against Homework: How Homework Is Hurting Our Children and What We Can Do About It. Total time is 35 minutes. Podcast rating of 7 out of 10. A good rating!
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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 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 more 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 learn which assignments advance learning and which are time-wasters, how to set priorities when your child comes home with an over-stuffed backpack, how to talk and write to teachers and school administrators in persuasive, non-confrontational 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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@AthosAmo I completely agree! The educational system is just regurjitating information in exactly the way the teacher wants and forgeting it after. Getting a good grade does not even show that you're smart, just able to repeat exactly what the teacher says.
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@xboxlivegtsubzeroaz Learning how to properly write an essay is one of the most important tools you will learn in school. Honestly, every job you go to will involve writing in some form (even as a marine you will have to work desk time). If you choose to go to university you will not survive without having proper writing skills.
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I remember when I was in school, I had atleast 2 hours of homework everynight, even in the lower elementary grades. I never felt I benefited from any of it. I remember a lot of the homework being things like worksheets and word search puzzles. Just mindless busy work just for the sake of assigning work.
JOM123456 9 months ago
@jake8384 True. I haven't. I'm not in Highschool yet...
xboxlivegtsubzeroaz 1 year ago
@xboxlivegtsubzeroaz you have not seen homework yet......
jake8384 1 year ago
I'm in the 8th grade and I will say that I am just done with homework. I get so much homework in my language class. I have to write so many essays. When am I going to write essays?! I am going to be a marine! Not some sort of writer. I don't need to learn how to write essays if im not going to need them. After I am done being a marine, I will work with microsft or sony. I am good with electronics. I have so much homework that im just too lazy to do it. I hope someone fixes this... SOON.
xboxlivegtsubzeroaz 1 year ago
I feel so bad for that ladiy's daughter. This is horrible she needs to be out more having fun with friends and family bot traped in a room filled with papers and books
DAN5675able 1 year ago
The establishment is wrong. It has always been wrong. By definition.
I remember thinking as a middle schooler in a bus waiting to go home, that I I would never let my children suffer what I did. I know others suffered much more than I, but still, it's not worth it. It's not just homework that ruined things. It's useless classes also, and useless grades even.
AthosAmo 1 year ago
sitting around for hours in late night study hall....terrible....private school bad idea talk about a joykill.
eratosthenesseive25 1 year ago
homework is not needed its unreasonable and stupid. all it does is make sure your child dosent have a life in or outside of school because of overloading on homework
amberTOXICANT 1 year ago