Kindergarten at center of homework debate

While educational guidelines often don’t mention homework for kindergartners, many of the nation's youngest students still get these assignments, which can include phonics and spelling questions, according to Education Week.Some schools make homework mandatory for kindergartners, while others cite research showing that homework doesn’t necessarily make students better learners as well as concerns that homework can make students not like school even at a young age.Other parents disagree, however, and say homework assigned to their children are tasks they’d do anyway, from reading books to practicing tying their shoes.Questions over the amount of time and the type academic work children should spend doing at home brings answers as varied as the work itself. Should students have homework? That’s likely a given. Flipped classrooms, for example, rely on students being exposed to new material at home. The age a child should be before they start handling tasks, however, is not clear.