Parents in West Sacramento said they are shocked by a homework assignment that some said is overtly racist. The 20-exercise worksheet contains what could be considered derogatory statements about ...

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — As far as kindergartners go, 5-year-old Addrien is your typical elementary school student. He likes coloring. He likes math. And he even likes his homework. But ask parents in ...

Parents of Marion County’s 20,000 elementary school students will no longer have to badger their young children to do those worksheets, spelling words and math problems. That’s because Superintendent ...

As far as kindergartners go, 5-year-old Addrien is your typical Palm Springs elementary school student. He likes coloring. He likes math. And he even likes his homework. But ask Coachella Valley ...

New York City public elementary school P.S. 116 has become a ‘No Homework’ zone but some parents aren’t convinced the new policy is a good idea. (Photo: Heather Holland/DNAinfo) After a year of ...

Citing the lack of evidence that homework does much if anything to improve academic performance in elementary grades, a principal in Manhattan notified parents that there would be no more after-school ...

Scenes from a public school childhood: The second-grade teacher sends home a pile of worksheets almost every night. Mom is trying to coax her child through the pages once again, until the 7-year-old ...

Just mentioning the word homework in Amy Foskey’s house has been known to spark arguments and tears. But that’s a thing of the past, at least for the Tucson mom’s fourth-grader, whose Marana school ...

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 ...

With parents and kids juggling more sports, tutoring and extracurricular activities than ever, a Texas teacher believes there’s little time left for quality family time. So, she decided to take one ...