Using Environmental Fit Model to Analyze Client

Essay by WalterHiggs3University, Master'sA, October 2014

download word file, 13 pages 0.0

Keywords

Running Head: HOMEWORK � PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT �1� HOMEWORK � PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT �7�

"Aiden" and "August": Fraternal Twin Brothers' Dilemma of Doing Homework and Attaining Achievement at their Suburban High School in Lexington, Massachusetts

Walter Raleigh Higgs III

SW 421B- Social Work Practice

Simmons College School of Social Work

Erina White, MSW, MPH, LICSW

"Aiden" and "August": Fraternal Twin Brothers' Dilemma of Doing Homework and Attaining Achievement at their Suburban High School in Lexington, Massachusetts

Introduction

There has been debate over the merits of homework, which has been a part of educational culture in the U.S. since the mid-1800s (Gill & Scholossman, 2004). Recently, the debate has been centered more directly on the amount of time students are devoting to completing homework. Articles in major news sources (i.e., Hu, 2011; Keates, 2007; Mehta, 2009; Wallis, 2006) discuss how many schools have reduced the amount of homework done by students, often limiting the number of days students can be assigned homework or the length of assignments they are expected to complete.

These above-mentioned stories cited statistics that demonstrate a growth in the amount of homework reported by American students since the early 1980's. Maltese et al (2012) mentioned in their research article on homework that nations traditionally ranked higher than the U.S. on international tests assign much less homework thank teachers here. Equally, a recent documentary compared teenagers in China, India, and the U.S. and tried to demonstrate how students from India and China spend a much greater proportion of out-of-school time devoted to homework and academic preparation (Heeter & Raney, 2007). Additionally, President Obama has repeatedly urged students to complete their homework-even those assignments that are not "completely relevant"-during his 'Back to School' addresses to students (Obama, 2009; 2011).

As a second year extended student of social work, I...