Australian schoolchildren are spending more time on their homework than students a decade ago - with Asians, girls and rich kids leading the charge, a new survey has found. Students aged 10 to 13 are ...

It’s a question many parents have asked over the years: do teachers give out too much homework? The National Education Association says teachers should follow something called the “10 minute rule,” ...

Homework: one word that makes the heart of many a parent sink and is guaranteed, at any given time, to be causing rows in homes around the world. The homework debate has raged for decades. How much ...

AS the Los Angeles Unified School District engages in a heated homework debate, the rest of the world is also reconsidering this standard feature of public education. A group of French parents and ...

Most American students spend less than an hour a day on homework, according to a pair of national studies presented last week, and that workload is no bigger than it was half a century ago. “Do ...

Parents, back away from that textbook. Helping your children with their homework—monitoring whether they do it, reviewing their answers, and sharing what you remember from 25 years ago about solving ...

America's second largest school district is joining a nationwide revolt against homework. Starting July 1, the Los Angeles Unified School District will mandate that homework can only count for 10 ...