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A harder look at homework: Is it effective? How much is too much?
January 03, 2012|By Anndee Hochman, For The Inquirer
Moneek Pines-Elliott saw the light leaking from under her son Jalil’s bedroom door way past bedtime. It was early September; Jalil and his twin brother, Jamil, had just started ninth grade at Germantown Friends School.
Pines-Elliott found her son perched on his bed, laptop open. “I’m doing homework,” he told her. “I’m almost done.” Pines-Elliott checked the time: nearly midnight.
“I was thinking: Oh, my, I hope this isn’t going to be habitual. I knew GFS was going to be more challenging, but I’d never thought about the homework. I said to my husband, ‘Is that healthy?
https://articles.philly.com/2012-01-03/news/30583510_1_homework-policy-middle-school-gfs
