Creating tasks with a focus on students’ autonomy—by providing choices, for example—helps them see the relevance of homework.

Homework used to be a means of practicing what we’d learned. These days, it's the primary instruction method. Somewhere along ...

Junior high students at the Marya Yates School in Matteson simply had too many crushes to attend to, Web sites to surf, and television shows to watch in order to sit diligently at their kitchen tables ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. By Harris Cooper A second-grade teacher in Texas recently rekindled the annual debate ...

Bitesize has the answers to lots of interesting questions like, why doesn't ketchup come out of the bottle? Or what happens when you strike a match in space? While knowing the answer to these ...

As kids return to school, debate is heating up once again over how they should spend their time after they leave the classroom for the day. The no-homework policy of a second-grade teacher in Texas ...

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

A second grade teacher's no-homework policy has gone viral, thanks to a student's mother posting about it on Facebook. Last week, mom Samantha Gallagher posted a note on Facebook from her daughter's ...

When the children returned to school last September I dared to dream, for the short while I was allowed, that homework might be a thing of the past. Our afternoons and evenings were our own, the kids ...

Second grade teacher Brandy Young gained national attention in 2016 when a note she wrote to her class parents was posted on social media. "There will be no formally assigned homework this year ...