In an informal Education Week LinkedIn Poll earlier this year, 42% of respondents said they believe homework is necessary for ...

Homework is as American as, well, mom and apple pie. It’s a concept that has spanned generations (and likely maintained its unpopularity with each new generation of students who take it on). While ...

After the Lafayette Parish School Board approved a change last week that forbids grades for homework, some have been asking what that means. Today, Superintendent Don Aguillard provided clarification ...

The legislation doesn't ban homework, but it encourages school districts to establish homework policies for all grades. The goal is to "promote evidence-based homework practices to support pupil ...

Some schools are eliminating homework, citing research showing it doesn’t do much to boost achievement. But maybe teachers just need to assign a different kind of homework. In 2016, a second-grade ...

Readers argue both sides, citing Finland, the value of repetition, education inequity and more. To the Editor: Re “The Movement to End Homework Is Wrong,” by Jay Caspian Kang (Sunday Opinion, July 31) ...

Homework: a word that can cause despair not just in children, but also in parents and even teachers. And for primary school children at least, it may be that schools setting homework is more trouble ...

Homework has been tied to school for as long as most of us can remember. Ask any student what school is like, and you'll hear about tests, teachers and homework. But with the way learning shifted ...

Children are not the only ones who dread their homework these days. In a 2019 survey of 1,049 parents with children in elementary, middle, or high school, Office Depot found that parents spend an ...

Sachem was the last straw. Â Or was it Kiva? My 12-year-old daughter and I had been drilling social-studies key words for more than an hour. It was 11 p.m. Our entire evening had, as usual, consisted ...

Many words and phrases are known to have different meanings in other languages, and much of the English vocabulary is derived from Latin roots. Some social media users are claiming that the word ...

Therapy home practice doesn’t have to be painful. Source: UfaBizPhoto/Shutterstock Homework between therapy sessions is a practice dating back decades and based on ...