For a high school physics teacher, assigning less homework meant comprehensively revamping assessments and how each class ...

Chalkbeat is collecting perspectives on homework — how much students get, whether it’s graded, and what helps or hurts learning. Teachers, parents, and students: Take our survey.

Harris Cooper, professor of psychology at Duke, reviewed more than 60 studies regarding the amount of time a child might do homework to achieve the optimal results. In a paper, published in 2006, he ...

Sleep deprivation is an epidemic here on campus. However, the bigger issue is how excessively homework is assigned. It seems that every semester, at least one of my classes is weeks behind the ...

Although the homework wars of past years seems to have subsided, the debate continues over whether kids benefit from after-school assignments. Parents are divided on the value of homework. Some ...