San Francisco school officials took a sudden U-turn Wednesday on an initiative that would have effectively let students skip ...

And you're left wondering: Is all this homework really necessary? For an increasing number of educators in New Jersey and nationwide, the answer is no. In recent years, Woodbridge Township ...

There will be no homework. Kelly Elementary School in Holyoke has banned homework for the year with the intention of giving students all the instruction and extra help they may need during the ...

From kindergartners to college students, they would all tell you the same thing: we need less homework. Met by the rolling eyes of teachers and parents, the call to less or no homework at all is often ...

“There’s no positive academic benefit at that level from doing homework,” said Mary Henderson, District 205’s associate superintendent for learning and leadership development ...

Brooklyn mom Liat Tamam (from left) sends daughters Rosa, 6, and Astrid, 3, to a no-homework school. Annie Wermiel For Liat Tamam, the daily, tearful battles over homework started soon after her ...

They virtually eliminated homework. Homework used to account for ... a small sampling of students on a recent afternoon found no one opposed to the school’s approach. Sydney Holt, 14, said ...

no agenda; just parents and children hanging out. There’s been a lot of research and debate on the academic value of homework for school-aged children. The results, although somewhat mixed ...

WORCESTER — A parent group is pushing for changes to the way Worcester Public School educators assign students homework including having a day in which no homework is assigned at all.