According to a 2001 review ofmore than 120 studies ofhomework and its effects by Professor Harris Cooper ofDuke University,the country’s leading homework researcher,and his updated 2006 review ofan additional sixty studies,there is very little correlation between the amount ofhomework and achievement in elementary school and only a moderate correlation in middle school.Even in high school,“too much homework may diminish its effectiveness or even become counterproductive,”writes Cooper in his latest research review [Harris Cooper,The Battle Over Homework,second edition,page 26, and Does Homework Improve Academic Achievement? A Synthesis ofthe Research 1987–2003,the Review ofEducational Research(Spring 2006)]. Many countries with the highest scoring students on achievement tests,such as Japan,Denmark,and the Czech Republic,have teachers who assign little homework.Meanwhile,countries such as Greece,Thailand,and Iran,where students have some ofthe worst average scores,have teachers who assign a lot ofhomework.American students do as much homework as their peers in other countries—ifnot more—but still manage only to score around the international average.[National Differences,Global Similarities: World Culture and the Future ofSchooling by David P.Baker and Gerald K.LeTendre,Stanford University Press,2005 Http://stophomework/fact.pdf
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