Parents in West Sacramento said they are shocked by a homework assignment that some said is overtly racist. The 20-exercise worksheet contains what could be considered derogatory statements about ...

New York City public elementary school P.S. 116 has become a ‘No Homework’ zone but some parents aren’t convinced the new policy is a good idea. (Photo: Heather Holland/DNAinfo) After a year of ...

Gaithersburg Elementary School has abolished homework. Instead, students are being asked to read a book for about 30 minutes a night, MyFoxDC.com. reports. When Stephanie Brant came aboard as ...

Just mentioning the word homework in Amy Foskey’s house has been known to spark arguments and tears. But that’s a thing of the past, at least for the Tucson mom’s fourth-grader, whose Marana school ...

Parents at a New York City elementary school are outraged by a decision to eliminate homework assignments and instead urge kids to play, DNAinfo.com reported. Teachers at P.S. 116 on East 33rd Street ...

Many Seattle elementary schools are doing away with homework this fall, citing a growing body of evidence that take-home assignments tend not to help elementary and middle school students.

Parents of Marion County’s 20,000 elementary school students will no longer have to badger their young children to do those worksheets, spelling words and math problems. That’s because Superintendent ...

When I toured a public elementary school last spring, one question in particular seemed to make the principal squirm. Do the kindergartners get homework, I asked? Yes, he replied, explaining that it ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY — Starting Monday, teachers like Beth McPhee will test the old adage that less is more. "You could potentially have less homework, but it's more individualized homework," McPhee, a ...