BENTONVILLE -- The Bentonville School District is reintroducing some parents to the homework equation. Parents of elementary and middle school-age children can expect more paper homework assignments ...

Several readers commented on my suggestion in the Aug. 5 Washington Post Magazine that we abolish regular homework for elementary school students and instead have them read whatever they like, with a ...

Harris Cooper, professor of psychology at Duke, reviewed more than 60 studies regarding the amount of time a child might do homework to achieve the optimal results. In a paper, published in 2006, he ...

I have attended 45 back-to-school nights over the last 40 years. They tend to follow a pattern. But this school year, I witnessed an exchange between a parent and a teacher like nothing I had seen ...

It may have been years—or even decades—since some of us were in school, but internet users still find themselves regularly flummoxed by homework assignments. Over the years, there have been more than ...