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Homework Is a Family Affair

Parents, stepparents, grandparents and other caring adults play a vital role in educating America's children. Homework is an opportunity for families to be involved in their children's education, as well as for students to learn. To encourage family involvement in children's learning, OERI's Office of Reform Assistance and Dissemination has developed a new publication entitled Helping Your Child With Homework.

The 41-page, illustrated booklet is addressed to parents of children in elementary and junior high school, although some of the ideas also may be helpful for high school students. It includes a detachable checklist that outlines the most important things parents can do to help their children with homework.

Why do teachers assign homework? How does homework help children learn? What's the right amount of homework? How can parents demonstrate to their children the importance of homework and education? How can parents monitor assignments? Provide guidance on assignments? Helping Your Child With Homework helps to answer these and many other questions.

Taking an interest in children's homework can have some very real benefits. Those children who spend more time on homework, on average, do better in school, and the academic advantage increases as they move into the upper grades. In addition, good assignments, completed successfully, can help children develop self-discipline and responsibility and encourage a lifelong love of learning.

To order Helping Your Child With Homework, send your name, address, and 50 cents for each copy to Department 310C, Consumer Information Center, Pueblo, Colorado 81009. If you have access to Internet, gopher to gopher.ed.gov and follow the path: U.S. Department of Education/OERI Publications, ED/OERI Publications -- Full Text, Publications for Parents.

Help us make a difference in the lives of our learners through a cooperative publishing partnership.

For more information call or write us at:

		Cooperative Publishing
		MIS Outreach Staff/OERI
		U.S. Department of Education
		555 New Jersey Avenue, NW
		Washington, DC.  20208-5570
		(202) 219-1556
		email:Kathryn.Perkinson@ed.gov

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