A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: There would be no more homework. None of the 2,500 students in this district ...

The issue of assigning homework is controversial in terms of its purpose, what to assign, the amount of time needed to complete it, parental involvement, its actual affect on learning and achievement, ...

The optimal amount of homework for 13-year-old students is about an hour a day, a study published earlier this month in the Journal of Educational Psychology suggests. And spending too much time on ...

I had a teacher conference today and met with most of my daughter's instructors and discussed her progress with them. The math teacher (8th grade Algebra II) decided to skip the meeting because he had ...

Some experts worry that less homework could be a problem for math achievement, at a time when test scores nationwide are ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Math can be ...

Summer homework is due on the first day of class by 1:20 pm. This is meant to start you off to learn to read the textbook, to familiarize yourself with it, and to brush up on skills you will need this ...

Ask any student how they feel about homework, and you’ll probably get a sigh. For generations, homework has been treated as ...