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End of Homework : How Homework Disrupts Families, Overburdens Children and, Limits Learning by Etta Kralovec and John Buell (2000, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBeacon Press
ISBN-100807042188
ISBN-139780807042182
eBay Product ID (ePID)1622925
Product Key Features
Number of Pages244 Pages
Publication NameEnd of Homework : How Homework Disrupts Families, Overburdens Children And, Limits Learning
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2000
SubjectEducational Policy & Reform / General, General, Parent Participation
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaEducation
AuthorEtta Kralovec, John Buell
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight10.6 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN99-050886
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal371.3/028/1
SynopsisIn 1901, homework was legally banned in California. By the 1990's, assigning homework to our chldren has a priority equal to national security. Today, few question the need for homework in preparing children for their future. And yet research suggests that homework probably has no helpful effect in elementary school and questionable outcomes in middle school. Our kids are overworked, tired, and robbed of their childhoods; parents are robbed of leisure with their families. How did this happen? In this, the first book to question the value of homework, Etta Karlovec and John Buell tell stories of students, who often come home to overworked parents and dometic responsibilities, with hours of homework they can't handle on their own and that would have been more effectively taught in the classroom. Arguing that in assigning massive amounts of homework to students, teachers and schools are essentially abdicating their responsibility to teach, the authors advocate forcefully for protecting the leisure time of children, who need a balance of work and play that allows them to prepare for their futures in work AND in citizenship. As an educator, Etta Kralovec examines carefully claims that homework is essential to the education of kids, and finds little or no support for the assertion. Homework is especially burdensome to disadvantaged children who may not have the luxury of free time, of books and computers in their homes, or of a 'quiet, well-lit place to study. Linking homwork for the first time with school reform, THE END OF HOMEWORK advocates for a society we'd all like to see: one that recognizes the necessity of work without forgetting the significance of society, family, and leisure.
LC Classification NumberLB1048.K73 2000
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