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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I personally think that the gist of this is that a small defined set of homework that is focused on topic is constructive, but larger amounts of homework are not exponentially or even linearly more effective.  The issue becomes when a student is in multiple subjects which assign homework, how much cumulative is too much?  IME as a student, parent and sometimes tutor is that the bigger problem is when a teacher does not consider the overall impact of adding a large homework problem because she fails to recognize that the student has homework from other subjects.  If teachers assigned short homework that stayed focused on point and only took 15 minutes top to complete, then having 3-5 homework assignments for an hour wouldn't be too difficult.  It's when one teacher assigns a homework assignment that takes an hour, they don't take into account that 4 other teachers assigned homework and the student is going to need 3-4 hours to complete the homework.  It's kind of the educational equivalent to "everything in moderation."'[/quote]

OP here. +1000[/quote]

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