The National PTA along with the National Education Association have come up with a homework guideline known as “The 10-Minute Rule”. It states that kids should be doing around 10 minutes of work every night for each grade level. So kids in 1st grade would have 10 minutes per night, kids in 2nd grade, 20 minutes up to 8th grade. Educators and child experts have found that there is a positive correlation with how well kids do in school in relation to the amount of homework they have if the 10 min rule is followed. Once kids get to between an hour and half to two hours of homework per night, the positive correlation with any additional homework and increasing scores drops off. Students who are getting over 2 hours of homework a night were not doing any better than the kids doing less than that.
This chart from playgroundequipment.com breaks down the amount of homework students have across the US and around the world. How does your state compare? Here are the top 10 U.S. states with the most homework for high schoolers in minutes per day:
1. Vermont: 110 minutes
2. Maine: 107.2 minutes
3. West Virginia: 102 minutes
4.Louisiana: 102 minutes
5. Connecticut: 93 minutes
6. New Mexico: 90 minutes
7. South Dakota: 90 minutes
8. Washington: 88.8 minutes
9. South Carolina: 88.1 minutes
10. California: 85.7 minutes
Infographic by: playgroundequipment
