The kids have been back to school for a couple of months, and those homework assignments may be piling up. It might have parents thinking about whether their kids are getting too much homework, or if ...

When I toured a public elementary school last spring, one question in particular seemed to make the principal squirm. Do the kindergartners get homework, I asked? Yes, he replied, explaining that it ...

On a typical weekday evening, 14-year-old Clara Jené spreads out her homework across the dining table in her family's apartment in a leafy northern suburb of Madrid. She gets about three hours of ...

Homework: one word that makes the heart of many a parent sink and is guaranteed, at any given time, to be causing rows in homes around the world. The homework debate has raged for decades. How much ...

Do kids actually need homework? Even with increasing amounts of data, it's hard to know if homework is helping or hurting students. By Stan Horaczek Published Sep 23, 2021 8:00 AM EDT Get the Popular ...

A second-grade teacher in Texas recently rekindled the annual debate over whether kids spend too much time on homework. The teacher said she did not plan to assign homework this school year because it ...

According to the Australian newspaper The Age, homework resentment might have reached its peak in 1887, when "a Texas student about to be whipped for refusing to do homework brought out a butcher's ...

Just about every parent has had the homework battle at some point. The arc of the fight is familiar: the parents nag, the children avoid or procrastinate; the cycle continues ad infinitum. Is the ...

The start of a new school year means the return to daily homework, an often dreaded task and the root of parent-student strife that leaves some parents of elementary school students wondering if it’s ...

After a Montreal school announced it would ban homework, the question feared by parents across the world reared its head once again: Why should anyone do their homework? The role of homework in ...

Most kids today are given tremendous amounts of homework at younger and younger ages. So, how young is too young for your kids to get homework, how much is too much and what should you do if you feel ...