Homework is as American as, well, mom and apple pie. It’s a concept that has spanned generations (and likely maintained its unpopularity with each new generation of students who take it on). While ...

A teacher’s classroom dispute shows how science denial can collide with everyday schoolwork.

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 modern education system is certainly interesting. When I was growing up, if you didn’t do an assignment, you didn’t receive credit for it. In other words, you got a zero. Similarly, if you failed ...

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

When a student turns in a writing assignment done at home and it’s clear parts of the finished piece don’t represent the kind of work the student usually does in the classroom, should the teacher ...

Mistakes are bound to happen. When a mom innocently shared a photo of a small typo spotted on her 5-year-old’s homework assignment on social media, she received an unexpected lesson on teacher burnout ...