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 ...

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 ...

An EdWeek Research Center survey finds that educators see homework as building students' knowledge—and responsibility.

How much homework students should get has long been a source of debate among parents and educators. In recent years, some districts have even implemented no-homework policies, as students juggle ...

Federal survey data suggests that the amount of math homework assigned to fourth and eighth grade students, in particular, has been declining. A few days into the new semester this January, the ...

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 ...