Homework

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Homework is extra work assigned to be completed by the assignee at home. The term is generally used to refer to primary or secondary school assignments as opposed to college-level coursework.

Like most educational-related work, homework can become a bigger burden as circumstances change. One of the worst and most dramatic increases of student workload was during the Cold War. For a period of time, the United States government was pushing large amounts of science and mathematics on children in hopes of having greater technological skills at America's command. Today, education experts such as Alfie Kohn are critical of the new push to increase homework as part of standards based education reform to increase student learning.

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In the US, students enrolled in Advanced Placement or AP courses are generally given twice the amount of homework than student not taking these courses. These AP courses are college level courses, for credit, for high school students run by the College Board.