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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

As bad as the pandemic was for student learning, if some current education fads continue, the future could be worse. By now, almost everyone has seen reports about pandemic learning loss. A study ...

School Board candidates are at odds on numerous current practices at Arlington Public Schools, including how stringent the ...

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, ...

School officials in Arlington, Virginia, are planning to table proposed changes to the school system’s homework policy to give staff more time to evaluate the impact of some of the recommendations.