Across Illinois and the Chicago area, teachers are flipping instruction. Students watch video lectures or absorb new information at home and come to class to do their assigned work. Advocates say it ...

Creating tasks with a focus on students’ autonomy—by providing choices, for example—helps them see the relevance of homework.

Today, Superintendent Aguillard provided clarification for teachers and administrators on the operational definition of homework. He defined homework as the daily individual practice of skills and ...

FRANKLIN - The local school district is re-evaluating the purpose and role of homework in students' instruction. The School Committee debuted a new homework policy at its Tuesday night meeting, after ...

Senior Lecturer in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra A middle school student I know came home from school with the task to recreate a medieval fort out of cake. I expect the History ...

The necessity of homework has been a subject of debate since at least as far back as the 1890s, according to Joyce L. Epstein, co-director of the Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- It's a topic that's constantly up for debate, and not just among academics -- but also parents, students and teachers. How much homework is too much? Good Question. "That's a hard ...

And I thought Miley Cyrus’ performance at the VMAs generated a ton of opinions. Ask parents how they feel about homework, as we did on CNN’s Facebook page, and the response is immediate and intense.

If you're a parent of a child in grade school, you're likely familiar with the ordeal: You wrestle your child into a chair to finish his or her homework -- a bevy of assignments that are sometimes ...