Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Denver teachers should be holding kids — not parents — accountable for homework. Beyond the core subjects assessed on standardized tests, our teachers should ...

Kids spend roughly seven hours at school, then come home to another two or three hours of worksheets, reading logs, and problem sets. We've built this system where we measure education in assignments ...

Alfie Kohn writes about what a new homework study really says — and what it doesn’t say. He is the author of 12 books about education and human behavior, including “The Schools Our Children Deserve,” ...