Are Teachers Giving You Too Much Homework?

Is homework necessary, or is it just a waste of everyone's time?

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Special Topic / The Case For and Against Homework
http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/mar07/vol64/num06/The-Case-For-and-Against-Homework.aspx
"Teachers should not abandon homework. Instead, they should improve its instructional quality."

How much math, science homework is too much?
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-03/apa-hmm032015.php
"When it comes to adolescents with math and science homework, more isn't necessarily better -- an hour a day is optimal -- but doing it alone and regularly produces the biggest knowledge gain, according to research published by the American Psychological Association."

Homework: An unnecessary evil? ... Surprising findings from new research
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2012/11/26/homework-an-unnecessary-evil-surprising-findings-from-new-research/
"Alfie Kohn writes about what a new homework study really says - and what it doesn't say."
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