One afternoon earlier this year, my 11-year-old son was sitting at his laptop and working quietly on his math homework. At ...

When it comes to adolescents with math and science homework, more isn't necessarily better -- an hour a day is optimal -- but doing it alone and regularly produces the biggest knowledge gain, ...

The issue of assigning homework is controversial in terms of its purpose, what to assign, the amount of time needed to complete it, parental involvement, its actual affect on learning and achievement, ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Math can be ...

Federal survey data suggests that the amount of math homework assigned to fourth and eighth grade students, in particular, has been declining. A few days into the new semester this January, the ...

Summer homework is due on the first day of class by 1:20 pm. This is meant to start you off to learn to read the textbook, to familiarize yourself with it, and to brush up on skills you will need this ...

The optimal amount of homework for 13-year-old students is about an hour a day, a study published earlier this month in the Journal of Educational Psychology suggests. And spending too much time on ...

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