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Sep 13, 2006
"Ignorance is an accumulation of thoughts undigested." --Ragunath Padmanabhan
Balancing Homework
Latest research shows that for high school students, there is no academic benefit studying beyond two hours a night; for middle-schoolers, 1.5 hours. In short, balance is key. Duke University professor Harris Cooper, the nation's best-known researcher on homework, also found that elementary school students get no academic benefit from homework -- except reading and some basic skills practice. But Cooper is no reductionist: he says that eliminating homework makes no more sense than "piling it on," and that the answer is somewhere in between.
BE THE CHANGE
Do an experiment: take the approach of balance in learning something new, whether it is at work, school, or home.
