The Case Against Homework by Sara Bennett

The Case Against Homework by Sara Bennett

Does assigning fifty math problems accomplish any more than assigning five? Is memorizing word lists the best way to increase vocabulary--especially when it takes away from reading time? And what is the real purpose behind those devilish dioramas?

The time our children spend doing homework has skyrocketed in recent years. Parents spend countless hours cajoling their kids to complete such assignments--often without considering whether or not they serve any worthwhile purpose. Even many teachers are in the dark: Only one of the hundreds the authors interviewed and surveyed had ever taken a course specifically on homework during training.

The truth, according to Sara Bennett and Nancy Kalish, is that there is almost no evidence that homework helps elementary school students achieve academic success and little evidence that it helps older students. Yet the nightly burden is taking a serious toll on America's families. It robs children of the sleep, play, and exercise time they need for proper physical, emotional, and neurological development. And it is a hidden cause of the childhood obesity epidemic, creating a nation of homework potatoes.

In The Case Against Homework, Bennett and Kalish draw on academic research, interviews with educators, parents, and kids, and their own experience as parents and successful homework reformers to offer detailed advice to frustrated parents. You'll find out which assignments advance learning and which are time-wasters, how to set priorities when your child comes home with an overstuffed backpack, how to talk and write to teachers and school administrators in persuasive, nonconfrontational ways, and how to rally other parents to help restore balance in your children's lives.

Empowering, practical, and rigorously researched, The Case Against Homework shows how too much work is having a negative effect on our children's achievement and development and gives us the tools and tactics we need to advocate for change.

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Nancy Kalish, PhD is an emeritus professor of psychology at California State University, Sacramento. She has been conducting research on reunited couples since 1993 and is recognized as the international expert on rekindled romances and lost loves. Her landmark study of 1001 people across 50 states and 42 countries, ages 18 to 89, who tried reunions with former sweethearts was reported in her popular book, Lost & Found Lovers: Facts and Fantasies of Rekindled Romances (1997) -- the only book ever published based on empirical research of reunited lost love couples. Her second book, The Lost Love Chronicles: Reunions and Memories of First Love, includes the best lost love stories collected after her first book, as well as some new research from her 2004-2005 survey of 1300 rekindled romance participants across 42 countries. Her popular website, www.Lostlovers.com, was founded in 1997. It features video and audio clips of selected media interviews; articles; photos of reunited couples; and a popular members' forum to discuss personal experiences with rekindled romances. Dr. Nancy Kalish earned her doctorate from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She taught at Monmouth University and Loyola University before beginning her tenure at California State University. The American Psychological Association lists Dr. Kalish as an expert for referrals to journalists on the topics of lost and rekindled love, teen romance, parenting, marriage and divorce, and media psychology. Dr Kalish was featured as the expert in a critically acclaimed documentary produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Company (Love Interrupted, 2009) and was flown to Sydney, Australia, to participate in a lost love segment for 60 Minutes (Australia/New Zealand). She has appeared on hundreds of TV and radio shows, including Oprah, 20/20, CNN, National Public Radio, as well as being quoted as a relationship expert in magazines, such as Psychology Today, AARP, Real Simple, and Cosmo. Her research has generated newspaper articles as far-reaching as Japan, India, Israel, England, South Africa, and Brazil, in publications including The New York Times, USA Today, The Chicago Tribune, and The Los Angeles Times. Her research was featured twice in Dear Abby, and on the front page of The Boston Globe.

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ISBN 13	9780307340184
ISBN 10	030734018X
Title	The Case Against Homework
Author	Sara Bennett
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Three Rivers Press
Year published	2007-08-28
Number of pages	304
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