Kids spend roughly seven hours at school, then come home to another two or three hours of worksheets, reading logs, and problem sets. We've built this system where we measure education in assignments ...

Senior Lecturer in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra A middle school student I know came home from school with the task to recreate a medieval fort out of cake. I expect the History ...

Alfie Kohn writes about what a new homework study really says — and what it doesn’t say. He is the author of 12 books about education and human behavior, including “The Schools Our Children Deserve,” ...