As our school division begins a step-by-step study of research-based instructional strategies, I am reminded, as a father of five, of that age-old refrain: “I hate homework!” Even my most studious ...

After a Montreal school announced it would ban homework, the question feared by parents across the world reared its head once again: Why should anyone do their homework? The role of homework in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When the school year begins Thursday at Marion County Public Schools in central Florida, the district’s 20,263 elementary school students will come to class sure of one thing: No matter what the ...