Homework used to be a means of practicing what we’d learned. These days, it's the primary instruction method. Somewhere along ...

University of Stirling provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. At the beginning of this school year, it wasn’t just children who were grumbling about homework. A despairing comment on ...

There is no law governing homework in Northern Ireland, so every school must devise their own policy and share it with ...

Although research suggests a positive correlation between home- work and student achievement, it’s negligible in lower grades. Parents may want to use research on homework as impetus for a broader ...

Just one look at your child’s face after school and you know you’re in for a long night struggling with math homework, answering questions about past and present tenses and giving advice about what ...