Editor’s Note: Etta Kralovec is associate professor of teacher education and director of graduate teacher education at the University of Arizona South. She is the author of “The End of Homework,” ...

Homework is one those never-ending debates in K-12 circles that re-emerges every few years, bringing with it a new collection of headlines. Usually they bemoan how much homework students have, or ...

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 ...

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 ...

After watching homework consume her daughter's afternoons and evenings, writer Eden Strong decided she was no longer willing ...

I’m writing this as a mom, who happens to be a teacher. There’s been a new school of thought and many schools are now adopting a no-homework policy. t And I must say that I’m a bit old-school; I still ...

It’s been argued that kids today have way more homework than they ever did, and one parent is so over it. Mom and author Bunmi Laditan says in a Facebook post that’s gone viral that her 10-year-old ...

The amount of homework assigned these days can be ridiculous. If the homework assigned is excessive, or if the content is too difficult for a child's capabilities, homework effectiveness can backfire- ...

LITTLE ROCK — DEAR MR. ROSEMOND: My daughter's second-grade teacher does not correct homework but only checks whether it was done. In keeping with the guidelines in your book on homework (Ending the ...