It's hard to get kids excited about things they don't want to do, like going to sleep, eating their veggies, and, yes, doing their homework. While some children are natural overachievers who enjoy ...

A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: There would be no more homework. None of the 2,500 students in this district ...

My son doesn't like to do homework after a long day of school. I also get worried about helping him because I learned to do the work a different way years ago. Education experts told me to give him ...

Homework is as American as, well, mom and apple pie. It’s a concept that has spanned generations (and likely maintained its unpopularity with each new generation of students who take it on). While ...

A teacher’s classroom dispute shows how science denial can collide with everyday schoolwork.

Some experts worry that less homework could be a problem for math achievement, at a time when test scores nationwide are ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A boy's sassy response to his teacher over why he didn't do his homework is going viral again, due to the sheer hilarity ...

I think there are more meaningful ways to spend the after school hours. I typically tell teachers that our family won't be completing homework. Sometimes, my fourth grader still wants to do the ...

A little boy named Edward Immaunel Cortez is taking a stand against homework, once and for all. In a now-viral "essay" that's making its way around the Twittersphere, he declared that he wasn't doing ...