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ERIC Number: EJ538620
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1996
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-189X
Homework Is a Complicated Thing. Section 4: Grading the Policymakers' Solution.
Corno, Lyn
Educational Researcher, v25 n8 p27-30 Nov 1996
Highlights five unsupported but popular notions about homework and offers five reality-based perspectives on the subject. It explains that homework is not the panacea to schools' problems, that it does not foster discipline and personal responsibility, and that parents do not always want their children to receive homework, particularly in the early grades. (GR)
Descriptors: Beliefs, Criticism, Elementary Secondary Education, Home Study, Homework, Misconceptions, Parent Attitudes, Public Schools
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Note: Theme issue topic: "Talking 'Truth' to Power." For related documents, see UD 519 755-770.