SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. - Guess what, kids? No homework. Really. All year. A small but growing number of elementary schools and individual teachers are doing away with the after-school chore to allow ...

A lot of kids hate homework, and studies show they're getting more of it than ever. But experts are questioning whether the work is worth it. Host Michel Martin discusses the debate over homework with ...

The start of a new school year means the return to daily homework, an often dreaded task and the root of parent-student strife that leaves some parents of elementary school students wondering if it’s ...

On the first day of school, teacher Maya Kruger announced to her sixth-graders at St. Anthony Middle School that her policy is to give them time to work on their assignments in class. Anything that ...

When I toured a public elementary school last spring, one question in particular seemed to make the principal squirm. Do the kindergartners get homework, I asked? Yes, he replied, explaining that it ...

I’m writing this as a mom, who happens to be a teacher. There’s been a new school of thought and many schools are now adopting a no-homework policy. t And I must say that I’m a bit old-school; I still ...

Polls show that American public high school teachers assign their students an average of 3.5 hours of homework a day. According to a recent study from the University of Oviedo in Spain, that’s far too ...

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 ...

A first-grade child's English homework has left both her parents and the internet as a whole completely baffled. They found kids who did their homework diligently were more conscientious than their ...

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