Creating tasks with a focus on students’ autonomy—by providing choices, for example—helps them see the relevance of homework.

Teachers at Clintondale High School send students home with lectures on video. The next day they tackle what would normally be considered homework together in class. The new model is called a ...

NEW MILFORD, N.J. (CBSNewYork)-- Across the country, teachers have turned the education process upside-down, in a new teaching trend where lessons are taught at home and students complete their ...

Kromrey Middle School fifth-grade teacher Chris Conohan loves coming back to school when summer winds down. “I always look forward to the relationships with the students,” Conohan said. “It’s just so ...

The pandemic has given rise to an opportunity and a challenge: the need to explore new teaching and learning methods. A unique strategy for enquiry, application and assessment that my students and I ...

Homework: the nightly battlefield where parents and kids clash over math problems, spelling lists and life’s little injustices. But one Arizona mom is tossing the rulebook — and a few answers — right ...

What is the best approach teachers can take towards homework? I think the guest responses today, along with numerous reader comments, provide a great perspective on the topic. If you’d like to read ...

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My son is in 4th grade.Currently he received about 45 minutes of homework a night including 20 minutes of required nightly reading that must be logged and signed by me. Last year he routinely received ...