homework should not be banned because it helps the students review what they had learned that day and it gives teachers the oppurtunity to see what needs improvement

Homework makes you smarter. High school students who complete homework score 65% better then non-completing high schoolers.

No way!!!!!!! the teacher can know what you need help on and it helps the student which is the most important and its your job as a teaacher to mke sure we learn everything we need to. I have a statisiti i can add tommorow on my laptop!

Homework in high schools ups standerized testing scores how ever it doesn't in the grades1-6 it does not effect testing scores however we dont know that it doesnt still help the student

Studys show that 69% of high schoolers passed the EOG more than high school students NOT useing homework.

Besides, Homework make people way more confident in what your doing.

Homework gives kids who don't do after school activites do thing and not get in as much trouble.

Studys Also Prove that Black and Hispanic students score over 1200 on the SAT with homework.

you need homwork to get a job with out that you will never have money and then life will be hard.

I have a stastic to show you:57 percent of parents felt their child was assigned about the right amount of homework. Another 23 percent thought it was too little, 19 percent thought it was too much. Evidence . http://news.duke.edu/2006/09/homework_oped.html

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How do you know it takes away family time????????

homework lets pearents know learning and teachers know what you need to work on.

Homework helps the mind grow with knowledge and helps then grow as a person.

it is a pro that it gives Promoting High Achievement. Its well known and provben fact.

Research indicates that homework in general is extremely beneficial for students. The supporting research is somewhat dichotomous indicating (1) objective benefits ascertained from standardized test scores, and (2) subjective benefits ascertained from parents, teachers, and the students themselves.

"Homework's effect on achievement can be described most accurately as above average," claims Harris Cooper in "Homework Research and Policy: A Review of Literature." (March 2000) Cooper indicates that, of twenty studies completed since 1962, fourteen are pro-homework. Of fifty studies correlating the time on homework with student achievement, Cooper states that forty-three of the studies showed students who did homework had better achievement. A typical homework-completing high school student, according to Cooper's research, will outperform students who do not do homework by 69% on standardized tests.

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Come on sure homework is tough but it helps you grow as a person and grows your knowledge base.

you cant be athletic when u r inside doing homework by your self

On homework: on standardized tests, homework-completing junior high students outperform homework non-completers by 35%. There seems to be no difference in scores in the elementary grades.

http://www.family-homework-answers.com/homework-should-not-be-banned.html this website says from a studen this: I believe that homework is a chance for students to relearn all they missed or what students do not understand in class. It also helps them earn responsibility to finish their homework. Homework is there to help kids and to teach them, not to bore them or to take their fun time away.

A student says: I believe that homework is a chance for students to relearn all they missed or what students do not understand in class. It also helps them earn responsibility to finish their homework. Homework is there to help kids and to teach them, not to bore them or to take their fun time away. check out this link:http://www.family-homework-answers.com/homework-should-not-be-banned.html

It is essential for your life because if you don't get education you can get poor and not live in a home and you don't get a job.

By simply evaluating the effectiveness of homework using behaviorist evaluation techniques such as standardized testing, one can ascertain that the short-term stimulus of assigning homework reaps the long-term response of improved student achievement.

In the article "How Important Is Homework," a summary of the U.S. Department of Education's stance on the issue provided by Kid Source Online nicely summarizes the subjective benefits of homework:

It serves as an intellectual discipline, establishes study habits, eases time constraints on the amount of curricular material that can be covered in class, and supplements and reinforces work done in school. In addition, it fosters student initiative, independence, and responsibility, and brings home and school closer together.

High school student said homework says that she dose not mind homework as long as there is a good reason and a reasonable amount.

Homework increases your chance of future success and also 'practise makes perfect.

As much as we hate homework, it is essential. It reinforces the lessons we learned in class, and gives us extra practice. The only way you can get out of homework is to convince your parents to homeschool you. It rocks

http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/plato1/constructhome/page4.html this is how I found my standerized test meterial.

Homework helps you with you're Test and your life when you grow up.

Homework grows, helps, and makes many children in Elementary through fifth grade feel more achieved.

Research indicates that homework in general is extremely beneficial for students. I creates the more succsessful, confident, happy student, shaped with all things good.

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For my point of standarized testing argument I have evidence on this site: 1. http://www.oxfordlearning.com/letstalk/2006/oct/2/the-homework-debate-is-it-time-to-get-rid-of-homew/

If you don't have spelling homework then you'll bomb the spelling test.

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