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

Source: Carl Pickhardt Ph. D. Back to school changes life for everyone in the family in many ways. Consider one: homework starts again. As in many aspects of parenting adolescents, there is a wide ...

Parents want their kids to be successful. Sometimes, parents are a bit too obsessed with this idea, though, and they try to take matters into their own hands. That’s what happened to one mom who was ...

School’s out for the winter break in most metro Atlanta school districts by the end of this week. Some students will likely go into the two-week break with homework to complete before school resumes ...

Most kids and their parents hate homework, or at best don’t see the point of it. Teachers are not that fond of homework either, but they are expected to assign it. I will not be reviewing the merits ...

I have a newly minted fifth grader at a charter school (while I don’t love charter schools, I am in a state consistently ranked nearly last in education, and his class size in public school would be ...

Homework used to be a means of practicing what we’d learned. These days, it's the primary instruction method. Somewhere along ...