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

Although the homework wars of past years seems to have subsided, the debate continues over whether kids benefit from after-school assignments. Parents are divided on the value of homework. Some ...

Learning how to buckle down and do the work takes intentional action. Distractions, teen life, and life, in general, can make it difficult to keep up with a school workload. Experts in education ...

Another school year begins, which means an outpouring of back-to-school feelings for students across America. Many are already feeling the pressures that come with it, particularly the load of ...

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. Psychologists ...

Homework is no longer restricted to hard bound notebooks. In today’s time, everything has become online submission. No longer ...

A debate has been sparked around the role of homework in educating pupils following comments by well-known education professor Jonathan Jansen, who argues that it is a "middle-class concept" that ...

With final exams again upon us, students across the country seem more stressed than ever, even as study after study has found they’re spending far less time on schoolwork than students once did. The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jamie Gold writes about wellness design and related housing topics. Millions of American children and teens are heading back to ...

Psychologists have long warned that children’s lives are overscheduled, which undermines their ability to develop non-academic skills that they’ll need in adulthood, from coping with setbacks to ...