Some schools are eliminating homework, citing research showing it doesn’t do much to boost achievement. But maybe teachers just need to assign a different kind of homework. In 2016, a second-grade ...

Boys who play video games on school days spend 30 percent less time reading, and girls spend 34 percent less time doing homework than those who do not play such games, U.S. researchers said Monday.

If teachers assign reading as homework and the students are not completing the reading at home, what do you do to get them to do it, other than assign questions? This question has garnered a lot of ...

TORONTO – While September means new teachers, old friends, and strapping on a backpack for students, it also means spending nights on homework instead of summer hobbies. But not for everyone. It’s ...

When the school year begins Thursday at Marion County Public Schools in central Florida, the district’s 20,263 elementary school students will come to class sure of one thing: No matter what the ...

DENVER (CBS4)- A 10-year-old has invented an app that keeps track of reading homework. Daniel Chao likes to do typical things that a 10-year-old does: hang out with friends in the lunch room and when ...

A Florida school district is eliminating traditional homework for all elementary school students this year, asking instead that they simply read for 20 minutes each night. The new policy — which will ...

Very few kids like homework, but some assignments are worse than others. We asked New Jersey students to tell us about the homework they can't stand, the ones that drive them nuts! I don't like math ...

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. You can pose a question for a future column here. Dear Bonni, What ideas do you have for student accountability?

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