Educate For Problem-Solving, Not Factories - Forbes
Educate For Problem-Solving, Not Factories - Forbes Job Creation - moladi Quick show of hands: How many of you actually enjoy doing homework? That’s more or less what I figured. (I don’t see anyone with their hands raised.) A 1948 U.S. survey showed that the typical high school student spent three to four hours on homework … per week. But as America raced into space during the 1950s, a pro-homework movement took off, in part, due to fears that students weren’t keeping up with their counterparts in the Soviet Union. The stacks of homework have continued to climb, by more than 50 percent since 1981 , but the additional problem sets don’t seem to be helping much. A new research paper suggests that if you can do basic subtraction, you’re probably a better mathematician than the majority of U.S. community college students. That’s discouraging, especially in light of lagging education statistics . Perhaps more troubling is that the extra homework load we subject our students to—...