A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: There would be no more homework. None of the 2,500 students in this district ...

Some experts worry that less homework could be a problem for math achievement, at a time when test scores nationwide are ...

The fourth graders in Jeremy Lowe’s class at Atlanta’s Parkside Elementary School are on a tight deadline. They have only five minutes to write a dramatic “warm-up play” with characters, a setting, ...

Washington, D.C. — National reading performance trends reveal that students’ reading scores have been steadily declining over the past decade and steepened further in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic ...