Some schools are eliminating homework, citing research showing it doesn’t do much to boost achievement. But maybe teachers just need to assign a different kind of homework. In 2016, a second-grade ...

The start of a new school year means the return to daily homework, an often dreaded task and the root of parent-student strife that leaves some parents of elementary school students wondering if it’s ...

A lot of kids hate homework, and studies show they're getting more of it than ever. But experts are questioning whether the work is worth it. Host Michel Martin discusses the debate over homework with ...

It’s been argued that kids today have way more homework than they ever did, and one parent is so over it. Mom and author Bunmi Laditan says in a Facebook post that’s gone viral that her 10-year-old ...

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I’m writing this as a mom, who happens to be a teacher. There’s been a new school of thought and many schools are now adopting a no-homework policy. t And I must say that I’m a bit old-school; I still ...

American teenagers now average about twice as much time spent on homework each day as their predecessors did in the 1990s. Whether the practice is beneficial for learning, Joe Pinsker wrote in March, ...

Homework can deepen inequities for low-income students at school if teachers judge students’ effort by their families’ involvement. That’s according to a new study in the journal Educational ...

My son doesn't like to do homework after a long day of school. I also get worried about helping him because I learned to do the work a different way years ago. Education experts told me to give him ...