Saturday, November 01, 2003

Who does that? Well, to assuage your fears, a new study has emerged to negate a previous study and reaffirms that indeed, kids aren't getting any more homework than they did 20 years ago. Not that this is good enough for some folks, apparently.  Anti-homework crusades are not new -- in 1901, for example, California passed a law abolishing homework for grades one through eight -- but they have usually been led by the same kinds of people, which is to say, elites. This might sound surprising: after all, critics of homework sometimes argue that it handicaps kids who don't have computers at home, or parents with enough education to help with assignments. But then again, it also tells those parents what their children are doing in school and gives them a way to help that may be less intimidating and more feasible than volunteering in classrooms -- the luxury of parents who don't have to punch a time clock -- or meeting with the principal. Laws against homework?  Didn't we always joke about that stuff in second grade?  3:59:08 PM    comment []

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