Parental involvement in homework
Helping your children with their homework—monitoring whether they do it, reviewing their answers, and sharing what you remember from 25 years ago about solving quadratic equations—may be doing more harm than 's the contention of new research discussed in "don't help your kids with their homework," an article in the april 2014 issue of the atlantic.
The article reviews the findings of a new book, the broken compass: parental involvement with children's education, published by harvard university book's authors, keith robinson, a sociology professor at the university of texas at austin, and angel l.
Harris, a sociology professor at duke, examined more than 60 different measures of parental participation in children's schooling to find out if their involvement boosted students' academic se: they discovered that parental help with homework doesn't help children score higher on standardized tests.
Goldberg, the author of the 2012 book, the homework trap: how to save the sanity of parents, students and teachers, sees another negative consequence of parental involvement with homework: more behavioral problems in e schools penalize students for not doing homework, he writes in the april 2014 issue of district administration, parents often take it upon themselves to monitor whether their child completes their assignments.
They may be angry over penalties given them at home, and they may expect to feel embarrassed when homework gets checked.
He recommends, among other things, giving students time-bound assignments that are designed to be completed within reasonable, fixed periods of time—and having parents agree to support this approach—as well as reducing penalties for skipping or failing to complete homework.
Wherever this has happened, homework-noncompliant children actually get more work done," he more on homework—and in particular how much time students actually spend on it—check out this time and learning blog post from last enable javascript to view the comments powered by rules for encourage lively debate, but please be respectful of others.