Homework is one of those hot-button topics that never fails to set off a wide range of responses when people are asked about ...

Homework is still “an important part of schooling, if it has purpose”, Dr Emily Levy, a learning and academic skills ...

Change can be a challenging concept to grasp at any age, let alone while already navigating the highs and lows that come with growing up. So, a parent making the ...

The necessity of homework has been a subject of debate since at least as far back as the 1890s, according to Joyce L. Epstein, co-director of the Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships ...

The main thing is that good or even great is not enough. If education is as important as they say, then it’s important enough ...

As you can see, most of the kids we asked think that homework is necessary. It is a good way to reinforce what you learned in school that day, and it can help prepare you for all the tests you have to ...

From kindergartners to college students, they would all tell you the same thing: we need less homework. Met by the rolling eyes of teachers and parents, the call to less or no homework at all is often ...

The question sounds as simple as 1+1, but the answer is more like the unsolved Collatz Conjecture -- a problem stumping even the smartest minds for decades. Fifteen years have passed since I graduated ...

The word itself conjures up images of massive books piled high on desks. Students with frazzled looks, pencils teetering behind their ears, frantically scratching their heads for that right sentence ...

When my daughter, Khaya, entered kindergarten at a Brooklyn charter school two years ago, I knew her homework would be considerable. Her school, like many others, strongly believes that nightly ...

A parenting coach and author told Newsweek that homework can get in the way of sports, socializing with friends and rest.