Parental concerns about ever-expanding homework assignments for their children may be misguided, according to new research suggesting that students' homework burdens have barely changed in 30 years.

Homework distraction has been linked to a wide range of variables. A new regional study by a senior learning researcher and Mississippi State faculty member is the first to link homework distraction ...

Kimberly High School teacher Brad Klitzke doesn't assign his students homework outside of class. He prefers that they complete their work during class and ask him questions if they need help.

PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A recent University of Phoenix ® College of Education survey of more than 1,000 American K-12 teachers reveals 62 percent assign less than three hours of homework per week.

It seems the smoke has barely cleared from those Fourth of July celebrations, but in many parts of the U.S., parents are trying to light fires under their kids in an effort to get them studying for ...

You may remember spending hours after school doing homework. A lawmaker in California is hope to change that for the next generation of students in the state.

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 ...

Editor’s Note: Etta Kralovec is associate professor of teacher education and director of graduate teacher education at the University of Arizona South. She is the author of “The End of Homework,” ...

Anxiety that American students are being crushed by excessive amounts of homework is nothing new—in 1901, anti-homework crusaders succeeded in banning schoolwork at home for students under age 15 in ...

Summer vacation's over, and your child probably feels just like you do -- not quite ready for all that schoolwork yet! You can both ease back into the homework routine with these tips from Deborah ...

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 ...

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 ...