Homework is a topic that almost everyone fights about, from educators to students to parents. According to Marzano, during the first two decades of the twentieth century, teachers believed that homework helped students become more disciplined, but by 1940, homework was thought to interfere with students' home lives (Marzano, 2007, p.74) . This trend goes back and forth until the 1980s when people began to have different opinions (Marzano, 2007, p.74). The definition of homework concerns the activities or tasks that a teacher assigns to a student that should be completed at home (Landing-Corretjer, 2009, p.14). Homework should be abolished because it does not improve testing skills or results, causes unnecessary stress and hinders students' home life. Homework does not improve the knowledge of today's students. Homework assigned nowadays is not directed at the child's abilities. In Voorhees' experience, a fifth grade student was given a reference that was at a twelfth grade reading level (Voorhees, 2011, p.363). If students continue to be given assignments they cannot do, they will not improve. Teachers do not realize that they are giving impossible tasks and are setting their students up for failure (Voorhees, 2011, p.363). There are possible reasons for this. One might be that teachers have a high reading level and can understand the materials provided to students. It may be difficult for a teacher to judge what an appropriate reading level is when he or she has such a large vocabulary. There is also the possibility that the teacher is tenured and simply no longer cares whether he is teaching correctly because there is almost no chance he will be fired. Homework has no direct relationship to test scores…half of the paper…the fact that homework has little to no effect on test scores and grades. References Biscoglio, Joseph. Langer, Nieli. (2011). “Grandparents against homework”. Educational gerontology, 154-163. Costley, Kevin C. (2013). “Does homework really improve results?” Arkansas Tech University, 1-10.Kohn, Alfie. (2006). "Down with homework." Instructor, 43-68.Landing-Corretjer, Gladys. (2009). “Listen to me! An exploration of student voices regarding homework.” Walden University, 1-135. Marzano, Robert J. Pickering, Debra J. (2007). “The case for and against homework. " Educational Leadership, 74-79. Voorhees, Susan. (2011). "Why the Dog Eats Nikki's Homework: Make Informed Decisions About Homework." International Reading Association, 363-367.Xu, Jianzhong. "Emotion management of homework reported by high school students.", 21-36.