A Nation at Rest: The American Way of Homework

Autor/inn/en	Gill, Brian P.; Schlossman, Steven L.
Titel	A Nation at Rest: The American Way of Homework
Quelle	In: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 25 (2003) 3, S.319-337 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-3737
DOI	10.3102/01623737025003319
Schlagwörter	Homework; Student Behavior; National Surveys; Educational Change; High School Students; Educational History; Public Opinion; Young Children; Primary Education; Excellence in Education; Trend Analysis; Age Differences; Elementary School Students; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hausaufgabe; Student behaviour; Schülerverhalten; Bildungsreform; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Öffentliche Meinung; Frühe Kindheit; Primarbereich; Lernerfolg; Trendanalyse; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; USA
Abstract	We use several national surveys to provide a 50-year perspective on time spent on homework. The great majority of American children at all grade levels now spend less than one hour studying on a typical day--an amount that has not changed substantially in at least 20 years. Moreover, high school students in the late 1940s and early 1950s studied no more than their counterparts did in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Changes in educational opinion on homework over the last half century have had little effect on student behavior, with only two notable exceptions: a temporary increase in homework time in the decade following Sputnik, and a new willingness in the last two decades to assign small amounts to primary-grade students. (Contains 8 figures and 37 notes.) (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10