![]() ![]() “When you have other responsibilities, it can be hard to find the time.” “We often spend two hours or more nightly on homework,” says Marilyn. Her feelings are echoed by Marilyn and Belinda, who attend school in Marseilles, France. “Sometimes I get really stressed-out when my homework piles up,” sighs Katie, a U.S. For instance, while some 30 percent of 13-year-olds there reported doing more than two hours of homework per day, in Taiwan and Korea, the figure was 40 percent, and in France, over 50 percent. ![]() Heavy loads of homework are not unique to students in the United States. One University of Michigan study suggests that young children are seeing up to three times as much homework as children did 20 years ago.” “High school students report more than three hours a night in some places. “As schools across the nation work to raise standards-and standardized test scores-they’re piling on the homework,” says a press report from the United States. ![]() ![]() I have no time to do them.’-An 18-year-old girl.ĭO YOU feel overwhelmed by the stack of homework assignments you carry home from school each afternoon? If so, you are not alone. I have so many projects and presentations to do, it’s not funny. ‘I’m a senior in high school, and I’m beyond stressed. . . ![]()
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