7 Mar, 2015
Homework around the world: how much is too much?
The Telegraph | Education News | Olivia Goldhill | 06 March 2015
As a New York primary school abandons all homework, how much time at home should be spent on homework?
Every child’s dream is, it turns out, many New York parents’ nightmare. A public school for primary-aged children in New York has decided to end all homework assignments, but angry parents have responded by threatening to pull their kids out of the school.
Teachers at P.S. 116 on East 33rd Street, Manhattan, have stopped asking children to work on maths problems and English essays at home, and are instead telling kids to play outside.
