The amount of homework teachers are assigning in many districts has declined over the past few years. And a deeper dive shows that educators in high-poverty school systems are less likely to give out ...

Educators on social media appear deeply divided over the utility of homework. Many question whether the assignments still serve a clear academic purpose in a post-pandemic landscape, while others ...

Homework should be engaging and aligned to Common Core standards, which allow students to develop deeper-level learning skills—such as analysis or conceptualization—that help them increase retention ...

Parents and educators question the value of setting assignments for students. But what does the neuroscience say? Like all teachers, I’ve spent many hours correcting homework. Yet there’s a debate ...

Spread the loveThe rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in education has become a significant concern for parents, especially as recent studies reveal that a growing number of students are relying on ...

Harris Cooper is chairman of the department of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University and author of "The Battle Over Homework." Updated December 12, 2010, 7:00 PM The horror stories I hear ...