Seventh-grade homework hit me like a ton of bricks–and I hear it’s only going to get worse. I’ve scrambled to try to deal with it all and learned what works and what doesn’t. If you are feeling ...

Homework is a hot-button issue for both parents and teachers. When we asked the MindShift audience about it, we got a wide range of thoughtful answers. And the results of our poll were pretty evenly ...

Homework has long been a tradition for elementary school students after spending the day at school. But Elmhurst Unit District 205 is in its second year for which district policy recommends that ...

Sachem was the last straw. Â Or was it Kiva? My 12-year-old daughter and I had been drilling social-studies key words for more than an hour. It was 11 p.m. Our entire evening had, as usual, consisted ...

And I thought Miley Cyrus’ performance at the VMAs generated a ton of opinions. Ask parents how they feel about homework, as we did on CNN’s Facebook page, and the response is immediate and intense.

I had a teacher conference today and met with most of my daughter's instructors and discussed her progress with them. The math teacher (8th grade Algebra II) decided to skip the meeting because he had ...

Q: My son just started sixth grade and already has been overwhelmed with schoolwork. It has become too much for him and he is becoming very stressed by it. I started to help him with his homework, but ...

U.S. 4th grade teachers assign less math homework than their colleagues in other nations but their students get more help with it. These are among the findings of a preliminary research study ...

Q: My kid (just started third grade) is going through a phase of just not wanting to do his homework. In previous school years, there was less work, and he considered most of it fun, so it wasn't ...

Lafayette students will need to pay closer attention to homework this upcoming school year after the Lafayette Parish School Board approved a change returning homework to the grading formula for sixth ...