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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Homework improves learning:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1228867.page

Why is FCPS abandoning a practice which has been proven to improve student's learning?  (it is not difficult to figure out)[/quote]

It has been proven to NOT improve learning.[/quote]
The general consensus is that homework does correlate with achievement in middle and high school. Results are less clear for elementary, however, that may be influenced by the fact that struggling readers are assigned additional homework.[/quote]

Makes zero sense to me how extra practice could NOT be beneficial for ES kids. There must be some other things going on with these studies as they just does not make sense. [/quote]
Researchers look at time spent on homework and test scores. The anomaly with ES may be that struggling readers take longer to read so they spend longer on homework than other students and may be given supplemental material as remedial work. These latter factors boost the time spent on homework but are linked to a struggling student with low test scores, hence impacting the overall homework-achievement correlation. By MS, most students have learned to read and homework becomes more broad-based across subjects so this distortion fades.  [/quote]

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