There's increasing doubt that some forms of homework for young children serve any real purpose. One school in south Dublin is currently experimenting with a ban on written homework. How is it working ...

Rob Manning / OPB What a difference a few months can make. Last spring, OPB visited Cherry Park Elementary School, where 3rd grade teacher Anne O’Brien, gave two reasons for assigning weekly, written ...

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Rob Manning / OPB It's the first day of school Wednesday for many of the kids in OPB's long-term project the "Class of 2025." They started kindergarten together, but they're in fourth grade now at a ...

Giving written homework has become mandatory for government schools in city since teachers have noticed that students aren’t used to writing any more post pandemic. Students of Class three to five are ...

I’m a dad with a 14-year-old daughter in second year at secondary school. She feels overwhelmed with the volume of homework she is getting from different teachers. There seems to be no system to allow ...

A few years ago, math instructors at Stevens Institute of Technology noticed their calculus students consistently struggling with the basics once they reached upper-level courses -- or, in some cases, ...