A teacher's main job is to make sure students are learning, and that includes assigning homework. Surprise, surprise, students don't like it. Would you believe that parents are raging against it now, ...

The role of homework has long been debated in education—what’s its purpose? How much is too much? Is it effective? As schools ...

A Cape Town father has launched a petition calling for changes to South Africa’s homework policies, arguing that excessive ...

HOME WITH THEM. WEEKEND HOMEWORK DOES IT PASS OR FAIL? THEY ARE THE HOPE OF A NATION. THEY ARE THE FUTURE. THEY ARE THE CHILDREN. HOMEWORK ON THE WEEKENDS, THERE ARE FAUX PAS. LET’S START BY ASKING ...

A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: There would be no more homework. None of the 2,500 students in this district ...

If you're a parent with kids in school, you may have noticed they might be getting less homework than they used to or maybe none at all. That's a relief for some families and dismaying to others. We ...

A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: No more homework. Since then, none of the 2,500 students in this district — ...

Homework remains a staple of many students’ educational experiences. But what do we know about the rationale for why teachers and schools assign it? The results of a recent survey by the EdWeek ...

Federal survey data suggests that the amount of math homework assigned to fourth and eighth grade students, in particular, has been steadily declining for the past decade. Credit: Stanislaw ...