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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I disagree. Homework has some value[/b], one of which is preparing the expectation to do homework. Also, especially in math it does help reinforce the concepts taught in class.

Homework is not "wrecking" schools -- such nonsense and hyperbole. I swear parents today want to coddle kids with their demands for four/five recess and less pressure. Good Lord, expect more from your children. They are capable and want to learn.
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There are actual studies out there that support the assertion that homework has no benefit in elementary school.

Are you also a climate change denier?[/quote]

Different poster but ... [b]there also are [i]a lot [/i]of studies that assert that homework [i]does[/i] have benefit in elementary school.  [/b]So unless you want to start dragging out studies and providing citations so that we can all start vetting them then stop slinging mud.  We get it.  You don't like homework in ES.

-Signed, A Different Poster who also is NOT a Climate Change Denier[/quote]

Can we see those?  Because to my knowledge there are no such studies vis-a-vis elementary school students.  The Duke study shows benefits for older children, but not elementary-age ones.[/quote]

https://today.duke.edu/2006/09/homework_oped.html

Seems to be a round up of the data (as of awhile ago).

From the article:

"The homework question is best answered by comparing students who are assigned homework with students assigned no homework but who are similar in other ways. The results of such studies suggest that homework can improve students' scores on the class tests that come at the end of a topic. Students assigned homework in 2nd grade did better on math, 3rd and 4th graders did better on English skills and vocabulary, 5th graders on social studies, 9th through 12th graders on American history, and 12th graders on Shakespeare.

Less authoritative are 12 studies that link the amount of homework to achievement, but control for lots of other factors that might influence this connection. These types of studies, often based on national samples of students, also find a positive link between time on homework and achievement.

Yet other studies simply correlate homework and achievement [b]with no attempt to control for student differences[/b]. In 35 such studies, about 77 percent find the link between homework and achievement is positive. Most interesting, though, is these results suggest little or no relationship between homework and achievement for elementary school students."

IMO, from this is looks like homework is effective.  The studies that tried to normalize based on student characteristics show that it helps.  At the [b]VERY[/b] least it isn't a slam dunk that elementary schools homework is bad.

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