As kids return to school, debate is heating up once again over how they should spend their time after they leave the classroom for the day. The no-homework policy of a second-grade teacher in Texas ...

The necessity of homework has been a subject of debate since at least as far back as the 1890s, according to Joyce L. Epstein, co-director of the Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships ...

Editor’s note: This is an adapted excerpt from You, Your Child, and School: Navigate Your Way to the Best Education (Viking)—the latest book by author and speaker Sir Ken Robinson (co-authored with ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Eighty-four percent of high school students use artificial intelligence for schoolwork, forcing educators to ...

Senior Lecturer in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra A middle school student I know came home from school with the task to recreate a medieval fort out of cake. I expect the History ...

New research shows that some students are doing more than three hours of homework a night – and that all that school work may be literally making them sick. It may be tempting to dismiss this latest ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: Etta Kralovec is associate professor of teacher education and director of graduate teacher education at the University of Arizona South. She is the author of “The End of Homework,” ...

The value of homework has been the subject of debate over the years. In regards to research, the jury is still out as to whether homework positively impacts a student's academic achievement. In the ...

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