Scenes from a public school childhood: The second-grade teacher sends home a pile of worksheets almost every night. Mom is trying to coax her child through the pages once again, until the 7-year-old ...

It’s not at all surprising that homework is now a front-burner issue in many school districts (“Is Homework Out of Control?” Parade, Aug. 21). Although teachers who assign heavy loads have never been ...

A lot of teachers think that if you assign homework, you must review it with students the following day. This makes sense in that it’s important for students to correct and learn from their mistakes.