Homework
Read more about take-home assignments, projects, and reading students are expected to complete outside of class
Curriculum
N.Y. Elementary School Eliminates Homework, But Parents Protest
A N.Y. elementary school is telling students to spend time with their families and play more instead of doing homework, but some parents are resisting the changes.
Assessment
Opinion
Homework, Oh Homework...
What do you get when you put unreasonable expectations on teachers and parents to make sure kids do things that adults they've never met really, really think they ought to do? You get homework. Even in first grade.
Teaching
YMCA Pilot Program Found to Boost Skills Students Need to Learn
The YMCA is seeking to expand an after-school pilot program designed to help close the achievement gap for low-income children after early research found that students are showing significant gains in the social-emotional skills they need to do well in school.
Teaching
Schools Teach Common-Core Math to Two Generations
Through parent math nights, letters home, and videos, schools are providing a quieter counterpoint to media critiques of the math standards.
Teaching
Tonight's Homework Assignment: Prepare for Disaster
Fifth grade students are getting homework from an unlikely source, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, through a school program developed to teach children how to prepare for natural disasters and emergencies and then develop those plans with their families.
Families & the Community
Opinion
When to Say When With Homework
Are our current beliefs about daily homework in fact a myth? What is the point of homework in your classroom?
Teaching
Opinion
Brain Science in the Classroom
Teachers can take cues from brain research to boost student learning, writes Benedict Carey of The New York Times.
Student Achievement
Teenagers and Multitasking May Mix, Says Study by High School Students
Unlike their parents, children who grow up in the thick of the world of digital gadgets may be rewiring their brains in a way that lets multitask and get it all done well.
Families & the Community
News in Brief
More Parents Troubled by Children's Homework
A national survey finds that more than half of parents with children in grades K-8 acknowledged they aren't up to the task of helping their children with homework.
Families & the Community
Survey Finds More Parents Troubled by Their Children's Homework
Homework continues to baffle most parents of children in grades K-8, according to a new national survey released this week.
Teaching
Homework in Elementary School Divides Educators
Only one school in Chicago has taken advantage of a district rule that allows banning homework.
Teaching
Quebec Elementary School Just Says 'Non' to Homework
An elementary school in Quebec joins the movement toward eliminating or reducing the amount of homework teachers are allowed to assign to students.
Teaching
Laptop Note-Taking: External Brain-Booster or Memory Drain?
Students write less but remember more concepts when they take notes by hand, a new study finds.
Student Achievement
Homework Clouds Students' Summer Vacation
Some students are spending increased amounts of time on homework over the summer. Does it make a difference?