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 ...

Homework is back with a bang, bringing with it the familiar sense of dread for children and parents alike. It encroaches on precious and limited family time and it can establish an unhealthy work, ...

Homework may have a positive influence on students’ conscientiousness. Students who do more homework than their peers show positive changes in conscientiousness, according to new research. Thus, ...

Q: My 14-year-old son is in Grade 9 and he has so much more homework than he ever has before. Every day is a battle to get him to do it. He’s doing well in school, but I am so tired of fighting with ...

Homework is a middle-class concept. It does not work, I discovered, in working-class schools where I spent my mornings over the past year. Like so many “common sense” ideas about schooling the world ...

Some teens might try the ‘dog ate my homework’ trick, but this kid got creative, writing an essay on why homework was “not useful” to him. Eddie Cortez, 14, wrote a detailed letter to his teacher ...

Why? Because they no longer have to do their homework. And they have the permission of their parents. Airing on 60 Minutes on Nine tonight, reporter Charles Wooley examines the debate surrounding the ...

Irish teens spend more time doing homework than most of their counterparts in developed countries. A report by the OECD found that 15 year olds here reported doing more than seven hours a week on ...

Working from home for close to a year now has brought this question to my mind: Are kids playing video games now more than ever because of the pandemic? I’m brining up this idea because of my neighbor ...