December 24th, 2009

News Flash? Screen Time Detracts from Homework

EdWeek.org, Digital Education

By Kathleen Kennedy Manzo, December 17, 2009

Students would rather do just about anything than their homework. There’s no news there. It probably won’t be a surprise either that more than three-fourths of middle school students spend three hours or more a day in front of a computer, television, or cellphone screen. All this time with technology, a new report says, comes at the expense of homework, which the majority of students devote less than an hour to each day.

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