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

Most every family has some form of the homework wars.Kids who are bored by it, or just hate doing it. Parents who think their kids get too much of it, and those who argue there’s not enough. Kids who ...

Greenwich's top educator is defending the use of a handout sheet of literary passages containing racial, ethnic and gender slurs that was part of a homework assignment on free speech and censorship in ...

A seemingly innocent year-one homework question has stumped an entire community of parents online. It all went down in a Facebook group, where a mom shared her 6-year ...

A Texas charter school is apologizing after a teacher gave an assignment to an eighth grade American History class, asking students to list the positive aspects of slavery. “When I first read it, I ...