Homework used to be a means of practicing what we’d learned. These days, it's the primary instruction method. Somewhere along ...

Creating tasks with a focus on students’ autonomy—by providing choices, for example—helps them see the relevance of homework.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Is homework actually helping kids learn? It’s a debate that’s heating up again as some mainland schools ban it altogether. In the islands, schools are also looking at the ...

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 ...

Brooklyn mom Liat Tamam (from left) sends daughters Rosa, 6, and Astrid, 3, to a no-homework school. Annie Wermiel For Liat Tamam, the daily, tearful battles over homework started soon after her ...

Guess what, kids? No homework. Really. All year. A small but growing number of elementary schools and individual teachers are doing away with the after-school chore to allow kids more time to play, ...

BENTONVILLE -- The Bentonville School District is reintroducing some parents to the homework equation. Parents of elementary and middle school-age children can expect more paper homework assignments ...

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 ...

With parents and kids juggling more sports, tutoring and extracurricular activities than ever, a Texas teacher believes there’s little time left for quality family time. So, she decided to take one ...

Second grade teacher Brandy Young gained national attention in 2016 when a note she wrote to her class parents was posted on social media. "There will be no formally assigned homework this year ...