Going back to school is exciting, but terrifying. The rubber hits the road when homework and exams start. After a busy day, the last thing a child and parent want is a power struggle. Tears, fits, ...

Don’t get caught up in the insanity by making young children go home and practice test prep. It borders on educational malpractice. Educators can sometimes be their own worst enemies. For eleven ...

Homework is one those never-ending debates in K-12 circles that re-emerges every few years, bringing with it a new collection of headlines. Usually they bemoan how much homework students have, or ...

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 ...

Some experts worry that less homework could be a problem for math achievement, at a time when test scores nationwide are already at a dismal low.

Piling on the homework doesn’t help kids do better in school. In fact, it can lower their test scores, the Huffington Post reports. That’s the conclusion of a group of Australian researchers, who have ...