For instance, in East Asia, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan – countries that had the top rankings on TIMSS average math achievement – reported rates of heavy homework that were below the international mean.
Are they completing projects, research, or community work that might make it difficult for them to keep up with a heavy homework load for your course?
Parents' time spent with their children usually decreases as their children grow up (Bittman 1999).4 Babies need to be taken care of all the time; primary school-aged children are not quite involved in heavy homework load compared with high school-aged children.
At screenings of Race to Nowhere in communities across the country, few issues have stirred audience discussion as much as the debate over students' increasingly heavy homework loads.
Keep in mind that some teachers elect to lay on a heavy homework load the first couple of weeks of school in order to weed out the students they feel are unprepared.
Given this cultural context, Hong Kong children are under tremendous pressure to cope with a heavy homework load and generally to excel in academic performance [ 42].
Even though this is not a very heavy homework year, and you will probably get the majority of it done in Study hall, don't goof off and don't forget to do any homework that you may get.
