Playing a video game -- with occasional math or vocabulary questions -- now counts as homework.

AI has killed the take-home assignment. Teachers have students write in class to ensure it's their own writing.

When schools expect less, students do less and learn less. Try-hard students are even rarer.

When fourth-graders used AI to generate Pippi Longstocking for book report covers, the adventurous girl appeared as a sexpot.

Most teachers assign less homework -- or none at all. Students won't do it, they say. But AI will.

Nearly half of 12th-graders do not have basic math skills. Many teachers aren't well trained in how to teach math.

Effort matters.

Teachers don't like grading "reforms" that lower expectations.

Everyone says they value a rigorous education -- but many don't want to do the work.

A new California law urges school to set homework policies that ease stress and promote "equity."

Teenagers are working less and earning higher grades. Everybody's "phoning it in."

English teachers don't teach many novels because students won't do the reading on their own.

"Equitable grading" isn't a strategy to inflate grades and lower expectations, argues Joe Feldman, author of Grading for Equity and CEO...

Forty-four percent of 13-year-olds (eighth grade) did no homework in 2022, writes Tom Loveless. The numbers are very similar for...

"Equitable grading" is supposed to be fairer to students who have trouble completing homework, getting to school on time and studying for...

"As bad as the pandemic was for student learning," some education fads will make it worse, writes Greg Richmond, superintendent of...