4/26/2007

No more homework, dirty looks

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review education writer Bill Zlatos explores the often contentious issue of homework, and just how much is too much--or too little. History Professor Steve Schlossman has studied this issue, and in 2003 he and his former student Brian Gill published a study in which they found that the vast majority of American children spend less than one hour each night on homework. That has remained relatively constant for the past 50 years, according to Schlossman and Gill, despite the common perception that today's students are overburdened with homework.

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Jonathan Potts