Mr. Hodge's Class

For the last couple of months I have been struggling with my beliefs about the benefits of homework in the elementary classroom.  Last January I attended a lecture at the Trinity School where Alfie Kohn discussed his book The Homework Myth: Why children get to much of a bad thing.  Since this time I have been evaluating what homework has to offer our children and what policies our school system has in place that I am obligated to abide by that are associated with how much homework our children are to be assigned during the educational day.  I would like to engage our community in a discussion about the practice of assigning homework to our children.  Below you can find some websites that have also addressed this topic to help you see where my curiosity began.

A podcast from Alfie Kohn's lecture at the Trinity School.

Sara Bennett and Nancy Kalish's homepage from their book The Case against Homework: How homework is hurting our children and what we can do about it.

Sara Bennett's blog about The Case against Homework

Marzano and Pickering's article in Educational Leadership
"The case for and against homework."

The Slate blog by Emily Bazelon

Time Magazine article by Claudia Wallis

Jay Mathews from the Washington Post

Please in your own time take a look at the above sites and let me know your thoughts on this issue.

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