There was a story in The Wall Street Journal in late April that should concern parents across America. It wasn't about inflation or the peril facing regional banks: It was more serious than that. It ...

School officials in Arlington, Virginia, are planning to table proposed changes to the school system’s homework policy to give staff more time to evaluate the impact of some of the recommendations.

The value of homework is suddenly under the microscope, and leaders of the Lafayette Parish school district have decided it should no longer be graded. School districts around the state also are ...

In its first meeting of the 2015-16 school year, the Palo Alto school board will tackle a 200-plus page research report that sheds light on both similarities and disparities in curriculum, homework, ...

San Francisco school officials took a sudden U-turn Wednesday on an initiative that would have effectively let students skip homework, cut class, and re-take their exams. Parents and politicians alike ...

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 ...

Under the new system, students are graded on a 1–4 scale, with a score of 4 indicating performance above grade level for that ...

Grading homework assignments for a large class can be a time-consuming chore, and overworked teaching assistants often have little time to give students detailed feedback. But help may be on the way: ...

Along the bumpy return to normalcy in our pandemic-battered schools, I see an interesting movement to ease grading and homework requirements. Many educators have been promoting such changes for years, ...

Some internet eyebrows shot up this week over headlines like “San Diego school districts overhauls grading system to combat racism.” It turns out that what San Diego is doing is following in the ...