The necessity of homework has been a subject of debate since at least as far back as the 1890s, according to Joyce L. Epstein, co-director of the Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships ...

A new survey finds nearly 50 percent of parents making an almost taboo admission: They struggle to help their children with homework. And many parents—46.5 percent—simply don’t understand the subject ...

(TNS) — Homework has long been a topic of debate, but in 2025 it is facing an existential crisis: Has artificial intelligence and its instant answers made it pointless or even counterproductive?

In a new study, the Center for American Progress delves into the quality of American homework assignments and finds a lot of them don't demand much from students besides basic skills. The study ...

I respectfully ask the district to review its homework guidelines for elementary students. After a full day at school, my child wants to play and enjoy some autonomy in an otherwise regimented day.

Homework is one those never-ending debates in K-12 circles that re-emerges every few years, bringing with it a new collection of headlines. Usually they bemoan how much homework students have, or ...

Schoolbags were a lot lighter at the beginning of this primary school year, but the bags weren’t the only things that were empty. Many schools decided to give homework a pass in September and, as a ...

Ola Kozak is celebrating. The 11-year-old, who loves music and drawing, expects to have more free time for her hobbies after Poland's government ordered strict limits on the amount of homework in the ...

Summer is a time for trips to the beach, a time for glasses of lemonade, a time for instant tanner -- a time for homework? For many teens, summer homework is becoming routine procedure, especially for ...

School pupils in the UK are given more homework than many other European countries, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Teenagers in the UK take home more ...