A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: There would be no more homework. None of the 2,500 students in this district ...

The issue of assigning homework is controversial in terms of its purpose, what to assign, the amount of time needed to complete it, parental involvement, its actual affect on learning and achievement, ...

Some experts worry that less homework could be a problem for math achievement, at a time when test scores nationwide are ...

A math teacher named Kai expected her students to complete their homework. Now, she says parents are accusing her of ...

I had a teacher conference today and met with most of my daughter's instructors and discussed her progress with them. The math teacher (8th grade Algebra II) decided to skip the meeting because he had ...

The optimal amount of homework for 13-year-old students is about an hour a day, a study published earlier this month in the Journal of Educational Psychology suggests. And spending too much time on ...

WESTERLY, R.I. (AP) - Any adult who has tried to help a second-grader with homework has noticed math is not what it used to be. Now schools are unlocking the secrets of Common Core math for mystified ...