美国各个学区、学校也不仅不再谈到限制或废除家庭作业,而且都制定了具体的家庭作业政策,要求中小学每天都要给学生布置家庭作业。美国中小学生的家庭作业在100多年的发展中,历经了19世纪90年代前的漠视、19世纪90年代至20世纪40年代的批判、20世纪50年代至70年代的重新重视、20世纪80年代之后的日益重视这几个截然不同的阶段。在19世纪的美国,小学和初中的学生几乎没有什么家庭作业,课外时间大都由学生自己支配。而在高中,受官能心理学家“大脑需要像肌肉一样训练”观点的影响,教师每天都要给学生布置大量的背诵、记忆类家庭作业。当时的美国高中期望学生每天晚上(包括周末)至少花2~3个小时的时间学习。但当时只有极少数人选择或者有能力上高中,也很少有人将每天2~3小时的 In every school district in the United States, schools do not just stop talking about restricting or repealing homework, but also formulate specific homework policies that require primary and middle schools to assign homework to students every day. The homework of American primary and middle school students has been neglected in the more than 100 years of development by the pre-1990s, the critiques of the 1890s and 1940s, the renewed emphasis of the 1950s and the 1970s, the 1980s After more and more attention to these several distinct stages. In 19th-century America, primary and junior high school students barely had any homework and most of their time spent outside the classroom was dominated by the students themselves. In high school, by the functional psychologist “brain needs training like a muscle ” point of view, teachers every day to give students a large number of recitation, memory class homework. At that time, American high school students were expected to spend at least 2 to 3 hours each evening (including weekends). However, only a handful of people chose to be able to go to high school at that time, and very few of them would have 2 to 3 hours a day