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 educational study offers evidence that simple and inexpensive changes to existing courses can help students learn more effectively. The study found that making a few changes to homework ...

Children cannot be made to acquire skills. They aren’t vending machines, such that we put in more homework and get out more learning. There’s something perversely fascinating about educational ...

There is a growing debate in New Hampshire and nationally about the value of homework, and educators are responding. Merrimack School District implemented a new homework protocol at the beginning of ...

We tend to think of homework as a necessary part of learning, a practice that teaches children discipline and keeps them from idleness. Yet a growing body of research reveals an astonishing truth: ...

Toddlers practice toilet training. Some young children practice cursive writing while others practice riding a bike. Teens practice problem solving and essay skills through daily homework. But as ...

I have written in the past about my hatred of homework from the perspective of both a teacher and a parent, so when I heard about a teacher who had ditched the practice of assigning homework ...

My daughter's homework is killing me. When I was in school, I did my assignments on my own, perhaps occasionally referring to my notes from school or -- if I was really stumped -- asking my mother or ...