Acacia School in Thousand Oaks is part of a small but growing movement to change how kids do homework, at least in elementary school. Some schools are getting rid of graded homework altogether. Others ...

Lafayette students will need to pay closer attention to homework this upcoming school year after the Lafayette Parish School Board approved a change returning homework to the grading formula for sixth ...

‘I believe in homework,’ superintendent John Legg said. ‘I believe in deadlines.’ Jeffrey S. Solochek is an education reporter covering K-12 education policy and schools. Reach him at ...

The summer homework assignment is due on paper on the first day of class. All work must be clearly shown. The examples in the textbook are good models to follow. Do your homework as follows: Use ...

I had a teacher conference today and met with most of my daughter's instructors and discussed her progress with them. The math teacher (8th grade Algebra II) decided to skip the meeting because he had ...

Joe: Rick, you’ve written recently about the harms of grade inflation and how a primary cause is educators who, influenced by “equitable grading,” compromise rigor and award students higher grades ...

Q: My son just started sixth grade and already has been overwhelmed with schoolwork. It has become too much for him and he is becoming very stressed by it. I started to help him with his homework, but ...

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,” ...

Joe: Rick, you’ve written recently about the harms of grade inflation and how a primary cause is educators who, influenced by “equitable grading,” compromise rigor and award students higher grades ...

Everyone’s heard the phrase “grading your own homework.” It’s usually said in a negative context, for good reason. Students shouldn’t be allowed to grade their own homework for school just like ad ...

Big changes are coming to Oregon’s largest school district. Starting this upcoming school year, Portland Public Schools will alter how middle schoolers are graded. “The grade book is going to look ...

The new Minister of Education Barbara Nowacka's reduction of homework in Polish schools (including the removal of mandatory graded homework for junior schools) has sparked a wider debate on state ...