When you think back to your school days, or even if you’re still in school, you likely sat through numerous lectures, then went home and worked on math or science problems on your own. Now, some ...

Remember when you forgot to bring your homework that one time and Mr. Jones from sixth grade wouldn't believe you didn't just slack off? If Google's new Classroom app existed back then, you could have ...

Some Guyanese teachers don’t seem to understand the purpose of homework. As I understand it, homework should have some connection to the work that children are doing in class, and be at an appropriate ...

Homework is a middle-class concept. It does not work, I discovered, in working-class schools where I spent my mornings over the past year. Like so many “common sense” ideas about schooling the world ...

Cathy Vatterott is an associate professor of education at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. A former middle school teacher and principal, Vatterott learned first-hand about homework struggles as ...

What is the best approach teachers can take towards homework? I think the guest responses today, along with numerous reader comments, provide a great perspective on the topic. If you’d like to read ...