Schools Banning Homework

[mandy]

Alarmed by indicators of student stress like cheating and substance abuse, a handful of San Francisco Bay Area schools are reducing an education staple: homework.

Oak Knoll Elementary in Menlo Park has mostly banned homework — except reading, special projects or catch-up work. Palo Alto's Addison Elementary and the Berryessa School District in San Jose are discussing the issue...

The changes have come as a University of Missouri study found high school students benefit tremendously from homework. In middle school, the results were not as strong, but homework was still found to be beneficial. But on the elementary school level, the same study found homework had no effect on students...

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[BellisimaJ.]

What a bunch of bs! Kids today get very little homework in any case. Our public system of education sucks, we place low in the most important subjects internationally and these idiots are concerned about stress because what-------kids will have one less night to party? Please. This is ridiculous!