This AP story details an innovative, and effective, program to get students to finish their homework. At Glenpool Middle School, teachers don’t give out zeros for incomplete homework assignments.

A seemingly innocent year-one homework question has stumped an entire community of parents online. It all went down in a Facebook group, where a mom shared her 6-year ...

I’ll be the first to admit that math isn’t my strongest subject. I’d even go as far as saying I’m pretty much innumerate (illiterate but for numbers – not a real word but go with it.) With that being ...

Most students will make an earnest attempt to answer homework questions without peeking at the answer, even if cheating is just a click away, a new study found. In the study, which was presented this ...

Homework is supposed to help students with their schoolwork, but it can easily turn into an after-school nightmare for parents and kids. In the first of WHYY’s parenting seminars, parents and ...

How much, if any, homework should elementary school students receive? It is an age-old and ongoing debate. But the discussion misses a fundamental part of the controversy: Teachers often don’t take ...