Timothy, a fifth grader, spends up to thirteen hours a day hunched over a desk at school or at home, studying and doing homework. Should his parents feel proud? Now imagine, for comparison's sake, ...

Ridgefield Public Schools want to know more about students and their homework habits. They’re looking to gain parental insight through a series of community focus groups on Tuesday, June 5, and ...

A Cape Town father has launched a petition calling for changes to South Africa’s homework policies, arguing that excessive ...

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 — ...

Educators on social media appear deeply divided over the utility of homework. Many question whether the assignments still serve a clear academic purpose in a post-pandemic landscape, while others ...

It's likely been an ongoing debate since the days of the one room school house. How much homework is too much? Students often rate their teachers by how much homework they assign. Recently, parents ...

This is the question at the heart of the homework debate. The Washington Post education reporter Jay Mathews wrote a powerful article: “Parents Saying No to Too Much Homework.” The story was inspired ...