Across Illinois and the Chicago area, teachers are flipping instruction. Students watch video lectures or absorb new information at home and come to class to do their assigned work. Advocates say it ...

FRANKLIN - The local school district is re-evaluating the purpose and role of homework in students' instruction. The School Committee debuted a new homework policy at its Tuesday night meeting, after ...

Today, Superintendent Aguillard provided clarification for teachers and administrators on the operational definition of homework. He defined homework as the daily individual practice of skills and ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- It's a topic that's constantly up for debate, and not just among academics -- but also parents, students and teachers. How much homework is too much? Good Question. "That's a hard ...

Homework has been tied to school for as long as most of us can remember. Ask any student what school is like, and you'll hear about tests, teachers and homework. But with the way learning shifted ...

Senior Lecturer in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra A middle school student I know came home from school with the task to recreate a medieval fort out of cake. I expect the History ...

Harris Cooper is chairman of the department of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University and author of "The Battle Over Homework." Updated December 12, 2010, 7:00 PM The horror stories I hear ...