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I think this is unfair. Low quality/rigor and excessive homework are complements; if ideological capture makes teaching 5x worse, it's tempting to shift the burden to the students by giving them 5x as much homework to make up for it. The equilibrium is infinite number of hours of fluff homework assignments, each of which pursues some popular fad but teaches nothing, with kids crushed under the burden; when tests show they're still not learning anything, teachers want to up the homework even more. At least limiting homework limits the damage.
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Bit hard to do US history from 1776 to 2000 without outside reading or honework if you only get 50 minutes a day, not even 5x a week. Like... there's a lot of history there
That's not even ideological capture, that's "WW2 can take easily a month bc it was that big"
This is not what the justification is. It's fucking equity. "Schiavo said the bill was also tailored around equity – something California teacher of the year Casy Cuny believes is crucial, noting students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds may not have access to resources at
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Ideological capture itself may be a symptom of some deeper problem. Asian schools have a history of uninspired rote learning and burdensome homework. Ideologically bureaucratic in a way that even the most ideologically bureaucratic Western educationist would struggle to accept,
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I have multiple deg’s and 3 professorships. Very pro-ed.
My kid’s in jr high, and learns fuck all. They just did a unit on THE NUMBER LINE.
Schools are not maximizing student potential. Theyre trying to “minimize disparities”. And there’s a trivially easy way to do that…
Well said! I haven't done hard research on the homework question, but arguments against its effectiveness are given a little more weight by how thoughtless people seem to be in their application of additional homework to patch over bad learning outcomes
“Public Education isn’t catered to the Smarties” says the man who goes on to write a wall of text that could have been condensed to two sentences.