The Atlantic recently published a collection of short perspective pieces on “The Homework Wars,” inspired by an article by parent Karl Taro Greenberg entitled “My Daughter’s Homework Is Killing Me.” ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. By Harris Cooper A second-grade teacher in Texas recently rekindled the annual debate ...

Homework is an important part of instruction. Homework provides students the opportunity to practice or extend the material learned in the classroom. Research tells us that doing homework not only ...

Homework used to be a means of practicing what we’d learned. These days, it's the primary instruction method. Somewhere along ...

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 ...