The Homework Myth
Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing
by Alfie Kohn
250 pages· 2006· ISBN 9780738210858
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Argues that homework does not provide academic benefits for younger students and that the notion of homework is the result of a set of misconceptions about learning, a mistrust of children, and a misguided focus on competitiveness.
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