A teacher's response to a third-grader's math homework has gone viral and left parents debating the Common Core math standards across the country. In the latest national debate over Common Core math ...

It's been more than two decades since Omama Kjerstin Gabrielson had to solve for x and y. When her sixth-grade daughter came home with a pile of math problems to solve, Gabrielson dusted off those old ...

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Although the homework wars of past years seems to have subsided, the debate continues over whether kids benefit from after-school assignments. Parents are divided on the value of homework. Some ...

In January 2017, a high school in the suburbs of Philadelphia became the subject of international headlines after a math teacher gave students a homework assignment that made references to sexual ...

A dad was reviewing his son’s math homework assignment when the unexpected appearance of two words, scribbled in pencil, stopped him in his tracks. Reading the words back to himself, Dave Robbins, a ...

Within a month of school being back in session, there will probably be a post that goes viral from a parent complaining about a horrible teacher and a ridiculous homework assignment. Sure, sometimes ...

The optimal amount of homework for 13-year-old students is about an hour a day, a study published earlier this month in the Journal of Educational Psychology suggests. And spending too much time on ...

The optimal amount of homework for 13-year-old students is about an hour a day, a study published earlier this month in the Journal of Educational Psychology suggests. And spending too much time on ...

Tim Walker reported on the implementation of policies from districts that barred teachers from giving students zeros for the National Education Association. He said that many of these policies ban ...