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…most of the explosive growth in homework over the past decade or two has taken place with younger children, even though this is the age-group for which studies most clearly fail to show any positive effect. It would be difficult to imagine more compelling evidence of the irrelevance of evidence.

Quote ID: 02742

Author

Alfie Kohn

Source

The Homework Myth

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