Spotlight On Education - Where has all the Homework Gone? 8/25/10
Spotlight On Education - Where has all the Homework Gone?: Since the 1960s, the amount of homework done by college students has plummeted - from 24 hours a week to just 14 hours. As our special week-long education series continues, we ask where has all the homework gone? We’re joined by: freelance writer Keith O’Brien; Sanjoy Mahajan, associate director of The Teaching and Learning Lab at MIT and a visiting associate professor of applied science at Olin College; Julie Rueben, a professor of education at Harvard University and the author of Making of the Modern University: Intellectual Transformation and the Marginalization of Morality; and Mindy Marks, an assistant professor of economics, University of California, Riverside. Read Keith O'Brien's Boston Globe piece, "What happened to studying?"
Garrett Quinn, WGBH contributor and author of the Less is More blog on Boston.com
John Summers, editor of The Baffler
