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

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. By Harris Cooper A second-grade teacher in Texas recently rekindled the annual debate ...

Courtney White is a high school teacher in Alvarado, Texas, who never assigns homework. She recently sparked a debate on TikTok after explaining her stance on not assigning homework. Some commenters ...

An English teacher in Texas has gone viral because she doesn’t give her students any homework. Courtney White, from Alvarado, Texas, posted a video on TikTok mentioning her homework policy. In the ...

School’s almost out for summer. Should students clear out their lockers and leave empty-handed—or laden down with stacks of math problems and required reading lists? Will teachers warn of ...

How much, if any, homework should elementary school students receive? It is an age-old and ongoing debate. But the discussion misses a fundamental part of the controversy: Teachers often don’t take ...