Mistakes are bound to happen. When a mom innocently shared a photo of a small typo spotted on her 5-year-old’s homework assignment on social media, she received an unexpected lesson on teacher burnout ...

Homework is one of those hot-button topics that never fails to set off a wide range of responses when people are asked about its value. From ardent backers of the age-old practice to absolute ...

GODLEY, Texas -- Kids across the country are heading back to school, but in a small Texas town, one second-grade teacher is making a big promise. Brandy Young, a teacher at Godley Elementary school, ...

A Lakota school teacher has “flipped” her classroom and now is turning up more success among her sixth-grade students. The technique, which is has been tried in some schools nationally but is new for ...

The modern education system is certainly interesting. When I was growing up, if you didn’t do an assignment, you didn’t receive credit for it. In other words, you got a zero. Similarly, if you failed ...

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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Chalkbeat Ideas is a new section featuring reported columns on the big ideas and debates shaping American schools. Sign up for the Ideas newsletter to follow our work. Homework is one of the most ...

When a student turns in a writing assignment done at home and it’s clear parts of the finished piece don’t represent the kind of work the student usually does in the classroom, should the teacher ...

American teenagers, on average, are spending less time on homework than they did a generation ago—and the decline has steepened since the pandemic. The homework slide, happening since at least the ...