When my son was heading into preschool, I thought I had everything figured out—cool backpack? Check. Healthy lunch? Packed.

When a student turns in a writing assignment done at home and it’s clear parts of the finished piece don’t represent the kind of work the student usually does in ...

Chris Rosenberg's son struggled through middle and high school because he didn't care about good grades. He's now focusing on business, not college.

A dad was left scratching his head over his daughter's second grade math homework, which focused on how best to equally divide a series of pizzas.

My son is in second grade and gets homework in several subjects every day. Sometimes, we are both up past his bedtime to ensure everything gets done. A child psychologist agrees that homework on ...

An Alabama dad turned to the internet for help with his son's first grade English homework after coming up against a seemingly impossible assignment.

4. Make Homework Voluntary When elementary school teacher Jacqueline Worthley Fiorentino stopped assigning mandatory homework to her second-grade students and suggested voluntary activities instead, ...

Surveys show that teachers in Poland overwhelmingly favour retaining homework, though many agree that the volume of homework should be reduced in primary schools.

Many kids in Poland are rejoicing over strict limits imposed by the government on the amount of homework. Teachers and parents aren’t so sure.

One week in grade two, my son came home with seventeen pages of homework, printed front and back—thirty-four worksheets filled with math problems and language exercises. He worked on them every night, ...

For 1,600 seventh-grade students whose classrooms were randomly selected to use ASSISTments for math homework, math achievement was significantly higher at the end of the year, equivalent to an extra ...