Marissa is a fictional but typical high school student. She finishes her school day and then has sports practice and her ...

A homework assignment at a Massachusetts high school has drawn outrage for being racist after it asked students to list the “positive effects of imperialism.” Calla Walsh tweeted a photo of the ...

How much alcohol is “too much,” in terms of cancer risk? Identifying causes helps us make decisions — both as individuals and ...

Journal of Behavioral Education, Vol. 24, No. 4 (DECEMBER 2015), pp. 402-417 (16 pages) Homework is a commonly used and occasionally controversial teaching practice in our public schools (Center for ...

How much, if any, homework should elementary school students receive? It is an age-old and ongoing debate. But the discussion misses a fundamental part of the controversy: Teachers often don’t take ...

Calla Walsh, a high school senior, grew outraged Tuesday morning when she saw the history assignment her younger sister, a freshman at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, was working on. The worksheet ...

Speaking to Irish broadcaster RTE, Michael D. Higgins said school work should be “finished at the school” rather than at home, “an utterance likely to be seized upon by children for years to come in ...

Advice for teachers and schools on how to ensure student homework is consistent, tackles inequalities, and addresses AI ...

It’s summertime and the living isn’t so easygoing anymore for students. Homework is cutting into their 8-week video game and hanging-out time, but the debate isn’t over on the efficacy of vacation ...

A New York City elementary school, P. S.116 on East 33rd Street, has done its own homework and is no longer handing out homework to kids. According to the school principal, research has clearly shown ...

Nothing quite stresses out students and parents about the beginning of the school year as the return to homework, which for many households means nightly battles centered around completing ...