pIn this updated edition, Cathy Vatterott examines the role homework has played in the culture of schooling over the years how such factors as family life, the media, and homework gap issues based on shifting demographics have affected the homework controversy and what recent research as well as common sense tell us about the effects of homework on student learning. She also explores how the current homework debate has been reshaped by forces including the Common Core, a pervasive media and technology presence, the mass hysteria of achievement culture, and the increasing shift to standards-based and formative assessment.pThe best way to address the homework controversy is not to eliminate homework. Instead, the author urges educators to replace the old paradigm characterized by long-standing cultural beliefs, moralistic views, and behaviorist philosophy with a new paradigm based on the following elements ulliDesigning high-quality homework tasksliliDifferentiating homework tasksliliDee