Death and fees come later; what seems unavoidable for children is the proven fact that, after spending your day at school, they must after that complete more educational assignments in the home. The predictable results: tension and conflict, stress and exhaustion. Parents react by reassuring themselves that at least the benefits outweigh the costs. But what if they don’t? In The Research Myth, nationally known educator and parenting expert Alfie Kohn systematically examines the most common defenses of research– about The Research Myth: Why Our Kids Get An excessive amount of an undesirable Thing it promotes higher achievement, ‘reinforces’ learning, and teaches study abilities and responsibility. non-e of these assumptions, he displays, actually goes by the test of research, logic, or experience. Why do we continue to administer this modern cod liver oil–or also demand a more substantial dose? Kohn’s incisive analysis reveals how a mistrust of kids, a set of misconceptions about learning, and a misguided focus on competitiveness possess all left our children with less leisure time and our families with more issue. Pointing to parents who’ve fought back–and institutions that have proved educational excellence is possible without homework–Kohn shows how exactly we can rethink what happens after and during school in order to rescue our families and our children’s love of learning.