In elementary school, where we often assign overtime even to the youngest children, studies have shown there’s no academic ...

Brooklyn mom Liat Tamam (from left) sends daughters Rosa, 6, and Astrid, 3, to a no-homework school. Annie Wermiel For Liat Tamam, the daily, tearful battles over homework started soon after her ...

Parent questions weekend schoolwork as families weigh rest, stress and learning balance in everyday routines.

At the same time, students fear that using the technology to help with assignments will hinder their critical thinking skills, a Rand Corp. survey found.

SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) – Guess what, kids? No homework. Really. All year. A small but growing number of elementary schools and individual teachers are doing away with the after-school chore to ...

Clarification: This story has updated to give a more precise estimate of the portion of teachers who say they do not assign homework at all. Questions over how much homework schools should assign are ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Is homework actually helping kids learn? It’s a debate that’s heating up again as some mainland schools ban it altogether. In the islands, schools are also looking at the ...

More parents are now rejecting the assignments, concentrating more on their businesses, as the economy bites harder.

The no-homework movement is finally getting a little traction, it seems. We’ve all long accepted that homework is just a fact of our kids’ lives when it comes to those 12 years they spend in school.

There are two words all students love to hear from their teacher: ‘no homework’. A Massachusetts school is saying just that to students as they are returning to classes, but it’s not being done ...