BENTONVILLE -- The Bentonville School District is reintroducing some parents to the homework equation. Parents of elementary and middle school-age children can expect more paper homework assignments ...

Harris Cooper, professor of psychology at Duke, reviewed more than 60 studies regarding the amount of time a child might do homework to achieve the optimal results. In a paper, published in 2006, he ...

Several readers commented on my suggestion in the Aug. 5 Washington Post Magazine that we abolish regular homework for elementary school students and instead have them read whatever they like, with a ...

I have attended 45 back-to-school nights over the last 40 years. They tend to follow a pattern. But this school year, I witnessed an exchange between a parent and a teacher like nothing I had seen ...