When schools closed and classes went online, expectations fell. Some students had trouble accessing classes or younger siblings to tend...

Homework can help students learn and narrow the achievement gap, writes Janine Bempechat, clinical professor of human development at...

My mother, my sister and me (the fat baby) in 1952. Parents — especially educated parents — spend a lot more time caring for their...

One of the secrets of Success Academy schools’ success is “holding parents to account for honoring the agreement they signed when...

When homework goes wrong, parents should remember three rules, writes K.J. Dell’Antonia in Medium. 1. It’s not yours. 2. What kids learn...

Elementary schools are dropping homework in favor of reading, reports Greg Toppo in USA Today. There’s “very little correlation between...

Banning homework for elementary school kids has divided parents, reports Kyle Spencer in the New York Times. Public School 11, a...

Two-thirds of foreign-exchange students say U.S. high schools are “much easier” than schools in their home countries, writes Tom Loveless...

A Staten Island middle-school teacher is under fire for an anti-Trump fill-in-the-blank question on vocabulary homework, reports the New...

School assignments killed his son’s love of reading, writes Tony on Leading Motivated Learners. Reading logs and summaries became a...