A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: There would be no more homework. None of the 2,500 students in this district ...

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Some experts worry that less homework could be a problem for math achievement, at a time when test scores nationwide are ...

Homework used to be a means of practicing what we’d learned. These days, it's the primary instruction method. Somewhere along the line, teachers stopped teaching full lessons in class and started ...

Homework has been tied to school for as long as most of us can remember. Ask any student what school is like, and you'll hear about tests, teachers and homework. But with the way learning shifted ...