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Kelly Elementary School in Holyoke fulfilled the dream of students everywhere this year. They cancelled homework. To compensate for their homework ban, the school district will be extending elementary ...

Editor’s Note: Etta Kralovec is associate professor of teacher education and director of graduate teacher education at the University of Arizona South. She is the author of “The End of Homework,” ...

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It used to be a kid's summer would all be spent outdoors, but times have changed! "You can just hang out and have fun, but school pretty much wrecks it," says 11-year-old Levi Johnson. Maybe not ...

The crystallizing moment for Sara Youngblood-Ochoa played out as she was sitting with her first-grade son last winter as he struggled to do "extra credit" homework after a long day at school. Growing ...

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Homework — a dreaded word that means more work and less play. The mere thought of doing additional work after a seven-hour day (that begins extremely early) can be gruesome. Not to mention, many teens ...