“HomeWork: Lessons Learned in the Home for Success in School and Life,” released in May 2023, marked the publication of the second edition of a book fifteen years in the making. Maxine J. Wood, Ed.D., ...

Southridge High teacher Katie Wilkinson flipped her pre-calculus classroom last year, and it worked so well, she's sticking with it this year. Instead of the traditional method of teaching a lesson in ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Dr. Bob Wilmott is chief of pediatrics at Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center. "Homework" is a pretty unpopular word. Few ...

Nearly six decades ago, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, and for a generation of American children school nights would never be the same. Many school systems had dropped homework in the 1940s, but ...

Little girls seated at their desk, education, child in a classroom, reading and writing lesson, primary school on Dec. 19, 2006. As kids return to school, debate is heating up once again over how they ...

After much research this summer, I’m trying something new. Homework will only consist of work that your student did not finish during the school day. There will be no formally assigned homework this ...

It’s the time of year when the homework battles are in full swing. When trying to juggle an already busy schedule of school, work, extracurricular activities, parent-teacher conferences, assemblies ...

We tend to think of homework as a necessary part of learning, a practice that teaches children discipline and keeps them from idleness. Yet a growing body of research reveals an astonishing truth: ...