U.S. Students Shown to Be on Par With Others on Amount of Homework

By Bess Keller

Gerald K. LeTendre has a message for any policymaker who thinks new heaps of homework could push U.S. students toward Singapore’s heights in math and science: Not so fast.

The Pennsylvania State University researcher looked at homework patterns internationally, using data from the most recent Trends in Mathematics and Science Study, which compared the performance of elementary and middle-level students in more than 40 countries.

His analysis, which was done jointly with Motoko Akiba of the University of Missouri-Columbia, found that American students do neither a lot more nor a lot less homework...

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