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Last week Treasa O’Loughlin, a mother of three from Cashel, Co Tipperary, was so busy at work that she didn’t have time to help her six-year-old daughter complete her homework on time. “So, I wrote a ...
In a new study, the Center for American Progress delves into the quality of American homework assignments and finds a lot of them don't demand much from students besides basic skills. The study ...
The optimal amount of homework for 13-year-old students is about an hour a day, a study published earlier this month in the Journal of Educational Psychology suggests. And spending too much time on ...
Learning how to buckle down and do the work takes intentional action. Distractions, teen life, and life, in general, can make it difficult to keep up with a school workload. Experts in education ...
The optimal amount of homework for 13-year-old students is about an hour a day, a study published earlier this month in the Journal of Educational Psychology suggests. And spending too much time on ...
Piling on the homework doesn’t help kids do better in school. In fact, it can lower their test scores, the Huffington Post reports. That’s the conclusion of a group of Australian researchers, who have ...