Although the homework wars of past years seems to have subsided, the debate continues over whether kids benefit from after-school assignments. Parents are divided on the value of homework.

That includes daily homework, which researchers say has no value in elementary school (other than to read). In this post, a parent explains why she doesn’t want her kindergartner doing it.

Kelsey was a senior contributor covering education reform and social issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage. Send an email to Kelsey. A local dispute over a high school homework assignment ...

Following an uproar last year over a policy that limited homework to 10 percent of a student’s grade, Los Angeles Unified officials are recommending a cap of 20 percent, along with guidelines… ...

A man has taken to social media to share his 11-year-old nephew's homework problem – and even adults have been struggling to solve it with many questioning how children are meant to find the answer ...

The O.J. Simpson murder case is lurid fodder for newspapers and television, books and movies. But is it homework? A group of 4th and 5th graders in Waukegan were told that it was when they were sen… ...

Last year, my kindergartner was given a monthly calendar filled with daily assignments. I promptly emailed his teacher a version of the note I’ve sent on behalf of my older child for several ...

Discover the downsides of assigning too much homework ... the daily homework slog ... a public K-8 school in Coral Gables, Fla., eliminated mandatory, graded homework for optional assignments.

A rule of thumb for homework might be that "all daily homework assignments combined should take about as long to complete as 10 minutes multiplied by the students' grade level" and "when required ...

The story started when the child brought home a homework assignment sheet that included practicing psalms with an adult, reading pages from a “Fun with Friends” text, spelling and arithmetic ...