Homework is a divisive old topic – it feels like every year there’s a debate that kicks off over whether kids should have to do it or not. The reality is, if your child’s school sets homework, they ...

A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: No more homework. Since then, none of the 2,500 students in this district — ...

It’s the time of year when the homework battles are in full swing. When trying to juggle an already busy schedule of school, work, extracurricular activities, parent-teacher conferences, assemblies ...

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 ...