Like camping, Justin Bieber or Marmite, homework divides opinion.
Professor Dylan Wiliam, deputy director of the UCL Institute of Education, argues that: “Getting pupils to do homework is an expensive and generally unproductive public relations exercise. Schools push homework because they think parents like it, but most schools don’t plan homework well enough for it to be worth doing. This is not to say that homework cannot be good, just that most of it currently isn’t.”
This often rings true with teachers, especially those working in the poorest areas of the country where young people often don’t have the appropriate space or resources to complete homework, let alone complete it to a standard where it might begin to have an impact on their learning.
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