Is homework as good for you as they say?

Common sense and modern conventions say that homework has a beneficial effect on students, at least academically, but this is not completely true. Recent evidence suggests that in some situations, homework may not have any beneficial effects at all. Although it has been proven that some homework is related with higher preformance in high school students, these same studies suggest that overloading students with work actually relates to lower perfomance. Many argue that homework gives students the chance to practice those things that they learn in school, as well as teaching them responsibility and how to manage their time. Increasing amounts of homework is resulting in overworked and overstressed students, struggling to incorperate large amounts of homework into their already busy schedules, but these students do not make up as large of a percentage of high schoolers as it might seem. Both sides of the arguement present valid points and arguements, but it seems that modern education continues to favor the pro-homework arguement.