If you're a parent with kids in school, you may have noticed they might be getting less homework than they used to or maybe none at all. That's a relief for some families and dismaying to others. We ...

Homework used to be a means of practicing what we’d learned. These days, it's the primary instruction method. Somewhere along the line, teachers stopped teaching full lessons in class and started ...

On Jan. 16, I issued something of a spontaneous cry from the heart in opposition to stupid homework assignments that do nothing to advance children's learning and serve only to overwhelm them and ...