A movement of individuals who protest the assigning of 鈥渢oo much homework鈥� is gaining momentum with a petition that will be presented to the at its convention next week.
More than 16,000 糖心动漫vlog, parents and policymakers have signed an online petition at in the past two weeks, urging the national parent-teachers group to adopt a set of homework guidelines that they say local schools can implement to realign homework policy and practice with research on student learning, health, and engagement.
Among the goals of the guidelines are increased educational equity and a narrowing of the achievement gap between students at well-funded and poorly funded schools; enhanced parental and family influence on and engagement with homework practices; and a rebalancing of students鈥� academic lives with their extra-curricular, family and community commitments and their developmental needs as children and adolescents.
According to the 鈥淩ace to Nowhere鈥� advocates, this is the first time the National PTA has agreed to hear a petition from a group outside of its membership.
Not everyone agrees that homework is over-prescribed in America. Washington Post education columnist Jay Matthews last year published an article, arguing that high school students are doing too little homework鈥攏ot too much.
Joining forces with director are education and homework authors (who wrote, The Homework Myth), (Associate Professor, University of Arizona and co-author, The End of Homework) and Sara Bennett