Homework is a middle-class concept. It does not work, I discovered, in working-class schools where I spent my mornings over the past year. Like so many “common sense” ideas about schooling the world ...

Students in a second-grade class in Texas are catching a break on homework. They won’t get any – all year long. Brandy Young, a teacher in the Godley Independent School District, sent home a letter to ...

Homework hasn’t changed much in the past few decades. Most children are still sent home with about an hour’s worth of homework each day, mostly practising what they were taught in class. If we look ...

As the Homework King and Queen were crowned, I was confident that I had never seen such a happy bunch of losers. Out of a class of 28, two winners were chosen by the other members of the group. I ...