Cathy Vatterott is an associate professor of education at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. A former middle school teacher and principal, Vatterott learned first-hand about homework struggles as ...

NEW MILFORD, N.J. (CBSNewYork)-- Across the country, teachers have turned the education process upside-down, in a new teaching trend where lessons are taught at home and students complete their ...

Some educators are placing a new focus on homework this year in an attempt to make sure children are on a level playing field. The concern is over teachers who reward or punish students based on ...

Homework is effective when classroom learning is transferred beyond the school walls. When teaching the concept of area, have students measure the area of a refrigerator shelf to determine what size ...

What is the best approach teachers can take towards homework? I think the guest responses today, along with numerous reader comments, provide a great perspective on the topic. If you’d like to read ...

A New Jersey school's "flipped classroom" approach in which students do homework in class during the day and watch lectures online at night appears to be having success, teachers say. "They can ...

Teachers at Clintondale High School send students home with lectures on video. The next day they tackle what would normally be considered homework together in class. The new model is called a ...

ANACORTES — The kids in Cody Anderson’s AP Chemistry class at Anacortes High School rarely do their homework at home. It’s not that they’re “bad students.” It’s that in Anderson’s class, what’s ...

Homework: the nightly battlefield where parents and kids clash over math problems, spelling lists and life’s little injustices. But one Arizona mom is tossing the rulebook — and a few answers — right ...

Students in a second-grade class in Texas are catching a break on homework. They won’t get any – all year long. Brandy Young, a teacher in the Godley Independent School District, sent home a letter to ...

Brooklyn mom Liat Tamam (from left) sends daughters Rosa, 6, and Astrid, 3, to a no-homework school. Annie Wermiel For Liat Tamam, the daily, tearful battles over homework started soon after her ...