The issue of homework remains a tricky one for schools. Set it and there is a chance it will not get done. Don’t bother and parents will demand to know why.
Then there are the questions of how much to set, when to set it, and what the expectations should be of pupils. Increasingly, it seems, there is debate in both secondary and primary schools about whether homework should be given at all.
With government guidelines on how much homework pupils should expect now scrapped, it has become a matter for individual schools to decide. This is not necessarily an easy decision to make. Research into the effectiveness and validity of homework is divided, and tends to follow the trends of received wisdom at any particular time.
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