MERRIMACK — After a failed lawsuit to halt the practice, for the third year in a row the grades local students earn for homework won’t count toward their overall semester grade. Bob Bevill, a local ...

The value of homework is suddenly under the microscope, and leaders of the Lafayette Parish school district have decided it should no longer be graded. School districts around the state also are ...

The new grading scale assesses students based on specific learning goals and largely removes homework from the grading equation.

Jami Dehn prepped homework packets to send home with her class of third-graders every Friday afternoon last year, carefully charting how much they should read, write in cursive and practice spelling.

There was a story in The Wall Street Journal in late April that should concern parents across America. It wasn't about inflation or the peril facing regional banks: It was more serious than that. It ...

Grading homework assignments for a large class can be a time-consuming chore, and overworked teaching assistants often have little time to give students detailed feedback. But help may be on the way: ...

School officials in Arlington, Virginia, are planning to table proposed changes to the school system’s homework policy to give staff more time to evaluate the impact of some of the recommendations.

Linda Hurka, a mother of five, always has taken an interest in her children’s school work, but she was never one of those mothers that had time to lead the PTA or advocate for an educational cause.

At the beginning of the school year, some Baltimore County students came home convinced that homework no longer meant anything, as the public school system introduced changes to grading policy on a ...

A new crowdsourcing tool that gets students involved in grading, CrowdGrader allows students to submit their homework online and then distributes the submitted solutions anonymously to other students ...