Parent Pushback on Homework: But Not in Big Cities or from Tiger Moms
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Surely, media stories on Moms organizing to get school boards to reduce homework nightly and on weekends to give parents and children time to watch soap bubbles float by suggest a backlash to the exponential growth in tests and NCLB strictures. Two-thirds of elementary school children and 75 percent of secondary school students report doing homework daily. For the youngest children (ages 6-8), homework increased from 52 minutes weekly in 1981 to 128 minutes a week in 1997 (REVIEW OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-2006-Cooper, p. 2)
Just don’t expect Tiger Moms–shorthand for immigrant and first-generation parents who see school and college credentials as must-have passports to the middle class–and big city parents to join any placard-bearing protests
