Homework!

Link to National Center for Education Statistics Issue Brief, "Expectations and Reports of Homework for Public School Students in the First, Third, and Fifth Grades."

(Summary from International Reading Association website.)

A new Issue Brief from the U.S. National Center for Education Statistics offers a look into children's homework experiences as they progress through the elementary grades. The brief uses longitudinal data to examine the amount of time that students' public school teachers expected them to spend on reading/language arts and mathematics homework in first, third, and fifth grades. It also includes reports from parents of public school children of how often children did homework at home in the first, third, and fifth grades. In addition, it examines whether differences exist in expectations and reports of homework by race/ethnicity.