Homework

[differenceblog]

Time spent on homework, according to Hofferth et al (2001) has "substantial variation by age": as children get older, they tend to have greater workloads. Hofferth et al found that "girls read less per week than boys, but, with age, their reading time increased relative to that of boys," but this included both reading for pleasure and homework

Comments

[ukelele]

Girls read for less time, or fewer pages? Given that learning disabilities are more prevalent in boys, I could easily imagine girls spend less time reading, but do more of it.

I feel like I should have more opinions on this -- education!! -- but I teach in an all-boys school, so it's kind of hard to do gender comparisons ;).

[differenceblog]

it didn't say anything about reading speed or comprehension. I was just looking at time use studies today.