The headline’s question prefaces an article in a Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education academic journal about the inadequacies of homework. Principals are getting rid of homework, asking ...

There are longstanding debates surrounding homework: when it is beneficial to learning and understanding, and how much time should students spend on it. In an informal Education Week LinkedIn Poll ...

One of the problems with the MythBusters show is that it's only 1 hour long. This means that it leaves many questions unanswered. However, when life give you unanswered questions - you get to answer ...

Homework, the bane of students since the era of one-room schoolhouses, has taken an unexpected – and unfortunate -- turn with the rise of smartphones a decade ago. The purpose of homework is to ...