After years of assigning the kind of homework she had done as a student and observing students’ disengagement with it, a teacher overhauled how she assigns math practice.

School assignments that a student is expected to do outside of the regular school day—that’s homework. The general guideline is 10 minutes of nightly homework per grade level beginning after ...

Homework is a divisive old topic – it feels like every year there’s a debate that kicks off over whether kids should have to do it or not. The reality is, if your child’s school sets homework, they ...