Homework...what homework?

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 31, 2010
Brian Gill, Social Scientist at the RAND Corporation and co-author with Steven Schlossman of Carnegie Mellon University of "A Nation at Rest: The American Way of Homework" in the academic journal "Educational evaluation and Policy Analysis", discuss recent studies debunking the misperception that today's students homework burden has greatly increased. A New Report Reveals That Homework in the United States is an Easy Load

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