Creating tasks with a focus on students’ autonomy—by providing choices, for example—helps them see the relevance of homework.

Junior high students at the Marya Yates School in Matteson simply had too many crushes to attend to, Web sites to surf, and television shows to watch in order to sit diligently at their kitchen tables ...

Homework used to be a means of practicing what we’d learned. These days, it's the primary instruction method. Somewhere along ...

This is the third installment in our series about school in a perfect world. Read previous entries on calendars and content. We asked prominent voices in education—from policy makers and teachers to ...

A second grade teacher's no-homework policy has gone viral, thanks to a student's mother posting about it on Facebook. Last week, mom Samantha Gallagher posted a note on Facebook from her daughter's ...

Mistakes are bound to happen. When a mom innocently shared a photo of a small typo spotted on her 5-year-old’s homework ...

We can’t put the AI genie back in the bottle, so it’s time to redefine what homework is, and what it’s for, suggests Anthony ...

Bitesize has the answers to lots of interesting questions like, why doesn't ketchup come out of the bottle? Or what happens when you strike a match in space? While knowing the answer to these ...

There is no law governing homework in Northern Ireland, so every school must devise their own policy and share it with parents. The department’s guidance is that homework should not be stressful and ...