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Re:Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the ol... by mlyle on Friday November 12, 2021 @09:46PM (#29206934)
I feel like you didn't read my comment.

AS SAID: I deliberately sent you the most pro-homework review. Despite being confounded in almost all of the component studies (being based on reported homework completion times rather than amount of homework assigned), no real benefit was shown in elementary.

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Re:Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the ol... by angelzen on Friday November 12, 2021 @11:15PM (#29207311)
no clear benefit on short term metrics != probably harmful
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Re:Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the ol... by mlyle on Saturday November 13, 2021 @11:22AM (#29210877)
We could look at the studies showing evidence of behavioral and emotional harms in elementary-- I figured "look at how weak the evidence from advocates is" was a decent opening to the discussion (and introduced it as such). But it seems like you want to just snipe.
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