High School Homework: Are American Students Overworked.
According to guidelines endorsed by the National Education Association (NEA), a student should be assigned no more than 10 minutes per grade level per night. For example, a first grader should only have 10 minutes of homework, a second grader, 20 minutes, and so on. This means that a student in my grade — seventh — should have no more than.The amount of homework young people are given varies a lot from school to school and from grade to grade. In some schools and grades, children have no homework at all. In others, they may have 18.In 2014, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) conducted a study and found that schools in Shanghai, China gave kids the most homework in the world. On average, their.
But student experiences don’t always match these results. On our own Student Life in America survey, over 50% of students reported feeling stressed, 25% reported that homework was their biggest source of stress, and on average teens are spending one-third of their study time feeling stressed, anxious, or stuck.For example, an average high school student in the US has to spend about 6 hours a day doing homework, while in Finland, the amount of time spent on after school learning is about 3 hours a day. Nevertheless, these are exactly Finnish students who lead the world in global scores for math and science. It means that despite the belief that.
A new survey from Citigroup and Seventeen magazine finds that almost 80 percent of students take at least a part-time job during the school year. The survey, which included students in high school, community college, online colleges, and both public and private colleges and universities, calculated that on average, these students work 19 hours a week.
