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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Salon article is a very biased reading of the expert opinion. This is straight from the mouth of Harris Cooper.

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2010/12/12/stress-and-the-high-school-student/homeworks-diminishing-returns

He recommends a little homework to build study habit. My son is 1st grade and probably spend 5-10 minutes 4 night a week. I think this is correct amount for this age. Nothing before K.  10 minutes k-2 sounds about right. [/quote]

And yet somehow, generations of kids (including probably most people on DCUM) [b]managed to develop the skills to do homework when homework actually became important[/b] to learning round about jr high ... drilling a skill far before a child is ready for it or needs it does not necessarily help. [/quote]

You don't learn to do homework when it's appropriate by doing a bunch of it when it's not.  I'm okay with sending a list of spelling words home each week on Monday to practice for a test on Friday.  Or the multiplication tables.  Or reading for 20 minutes a night.  But worksheets for preschoolers?  Stupid.  I didn't have homework until third grade at the earliest, aside from little things like "look for three red things in your house" or whatever.

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