Creating tasks with a focus on students’ autonomy—by providing choices, for example—helps them see the relevance of homework.

Denise Cote moved from table to table in her math class last week at Stonebridge Elementary in Stillwater, helping her fifth-graders work through word problems to learn multiplication and division.

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

After much research this summer, I’m trying something new. Homework will only consist of work that your student did not finish during the school day. There will be no formally assigned homework this ...

Today’s guest post is written by Kris Fox, senior field specialist for the Quaglia Institute for Student Aspirations (QISA). Challenge yourself to rethink the purpose of homework. Although the general ...

I am a parent, and I struggle daily with making sure my daughter does her homework. I can certainly identify with the anxiety Karl Taro Greenfeld describes in his essay “My Daughter’s Homework Is ...

My daughter came out of her bedroom 10 minutes after bedtime crying because she’d forgotten to do her homework. She’s 8 and in second grade, and her teacher wants her to spend five or so minutes a ...

NEW MILFORD, N.J. (CBSNewYork)-- Across the country, teachers have turned the education process upside-down, in a new teaching trend where lessons are taught at home and students complete their ...