Jami Dehn prepped homework packets to send home with her class of third-graders every Friday afternoon last year, carefully charting how much they should read, write in cursive and practice spelling.

MERRIMACK — After a failed lawsuit to halt the practice, for the third year in a row the grades local students earn for homework won’t count toward their overall semester grade. Bob Bevill, a local ...

Grading homework assignments for a large class can be a time-consuming chore, and overworked teaching assistants often have little time to give students detailed feedback. But help may be on the way: ...

There was a story in The Wall Street Journal in late April that should concern parents across America. It wasn't about inflation or the peril facing regional banks: It was more serious than that. It ...

I had a teacher conference today and met with most of my daughter's instructors and discussed her progress with them. The math teacher (8th grade Algebra II) decided to skip the meeting because he had ...

The value of homework is suddenly under the microscope, and leaders of the Lafayette Parish school district have decided it should no longer be graded. School districts around the state also are ...

Lafayette students will need to pay closer attention to homework this upcoming school year after the Lafayette Parish School Board approved a change returning homework to the grading formula for sixth ...

SANTA CRUZ — UC Santa Cruz undergraduates may get a taste of grading homework this fall. UCSC computer science professor Luca de Alfaro and graduate student Michael Shavlovsky have developed ...

Along the bumpy return to normalcy in our pandemic-battered schools, I see an interesting movement to ease grading and homework requirements. Many educators have been promoting such changes for years, ...

A student disinfects her hands when entering a primary school in Shanghai, east China, Feb. 22, 2021. Primary and middle schools in Shanghai started the new semester on Monday. [Photo/Xinhua] Teachers ...