-junior high school students who do homework perform 10% better academically than those who do none
-high school students who do homework perform 19% better than those who do none
-Over 80% of parents in a survey reported that homework is a necessity in order for children to build good work habits
-In 2001, 71% of high school and middle school students agreed that the majority of their classmates "did the bare minimum to get by"
-Two-thirds of seventeen year olds do less than one hour of homework a night
-forty percent of seventeen year olds do no homework at all on any given night
-On recent international math and science test, the United States has ranked near the bottom
-The amount of homework for 13yr-olds increased from 17% to 24% from 1984 to 1999
-American students spend about half the time on academic subects as students in Japan, France, and Germany
-Homework is the cheapest and most efficient method of educational reform available
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Interesting facts. Who conducted some of these studies? Are these all legitimate?
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