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A public elementary school in New York Cityhas stopped giving its students homework. 纽约一所公立小学日前宣布，停止给学生布置家庭作业。 P.S. 116 Principal Jane Hsu wrote a letter to parents last month detailing the decision, explaining that after more than a year of analyzing studies, the school had concluded that students’ after-school time would be better spent on activities like reading at their own pace and playing rather than working on class assignments. 公立116小学（P.S.116）华裔校长许简上个月在给家长们的信中阐述了这一决定，并解释称，学校在经过一年多的研究分析后得出如下结论：学生的课余时间应该用来玩耍，或是按照自己的节奏阅读，而不该是做作业。 Hsu’s letter says that many studies indicate that there is no connection between homework and academic success. Indeed, there are some studies that show that the link between homework and success is dubious at the primary school level. 许简在信中写道，不少研究表明，家庭作业与学业表现并无关联。事实上，有一些研究表明，在小学阶段，家庭作业与学科成绩之间的相关性并不明显。 A seminal 1989 study on homework by Harris Cooper, a social psychologist who researches education, found that doing homework led students to perform better in school as they grew older. In later grades, students who did homework performed increasingly better than students who did not. In 2006, Cooper published a study that analyzed 15 years' worth of data on the effectiveness of homework. He found that homework had a more positive impact on students as they aged, and identified stronger correlations between homework and achievement for students in grades seven through 12 than for students in kindergarten through sixth grade. | 
