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, ...

From kindergartners to college students, they would all tell you the same thing: we need less homework. Met by the rolling eyes of teachers and parents, the call to less or no homework at all is often ...

School leaders in Worcester, Massachusetts, are considering giving out no homework on certain days of the week.The school committee voted Thursday night to review its current homework policy. The ...

On the first day of school, teacher Maya Kruger announced to her sixth-graders at St. Anthony Middle School that her policy is to give them time to work on their assignments in class. Anything that ...

There is no law governing homework in Northern Ireland, so every school must devise their own policy and share it with ...

The necessity of homework has been a subject of debate since at least as far back as the 1890s, according to Joyce L. Epstein, co-director of the Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships ...

WORCESTER — A parent group is pushing for changes to the way Worcester Public School educators assign students homework including having a day in which no homework is assigned at all. The topic is on ...

This article is one of the winning submissions from the first annual New York Post Scholars Contest, presented by Command Education. My phone beeped with a text: “Can you come to the playoffs with me ...