Does homework really benefit students? Does it genuinely help them gain and consolidate knowledge? Are there other less obvious benefits?
Or is it an outmoded practice that is merely to ‘tick a box’ and because ‘it is what we have always done’?
Click on the image below to read an article from The New Yorker and try to answer these questions -
What percentage of primary school students in South Korea have private tutors after school?
Why might affluent parents want to see homework abolished?
What is the great modern evil (according to the article)?
