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Parental concerns about ever-expanding homework assignments for their children may be misguided, according to new research suggesting that students' homework burdens have barely changed in 30 years.

Reformers in the Progressive Era (from the 1890s to 1920s) depicted homework as a “sin” that deprived children of their playtime. Many critics voice similar concerns today. Yet there are many parents ...

Fourth-grader Nicholas Sanchez gets home from school – and his homework race begins. "I have four pages of math, one page of spelling, a little bit more of math, and 20 minutes of reading,” he tells ...

Students in primary schools are being assigned nearly three times the amount recommended by the National Education Association (NEA), according to new research appearing in the American Journal of ...

KATONAH, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)-- To all those tiger moms and dads out there who push their children to excel in a competitive world, some of New York's top private schools have a message for you: ...

An analysis from the National Center for Education Statistics suggests that children in elementary schools with high concentrations of minority students have heavier homework burdens in both reading ...

When Victoria Correa, a junior at the Winchester High School, sat down to tackle her homework on a recent afternoon, she felt overwhelmed. She had five problems to complete for her pre-calculus class, ...

For students at competitive high schools in upper middle-class areas, homework may be a double-edged sword. The authors of a study published in the peer-refereed Journal of Experimental Education ...

Reformers in the Progressive Era (from the 1890s to 1920s) depicted homework as a “sin” that deprived children of their playtime. Many critics voice similar concerns today. Yet there are many parents ...