MERRIMACK — After a failed lawsuit to halt the practice, for the third year in a row the grades local students earn for homework won’t count toward their overall semester grade. Bob Bevill, a local ...

The value of homework is suddenly under the microscope, and leaders of the Lafayette Parish school district have decided it should no longer be graded. School districts around the state also are ...

There was a story in The Wall Street Journal in late April that should concern parents across America. It wasn't about inflation or the peril facing regional banks: It was more serious than that. It ...

Lafayette students will need to pay closer attention to homework this upcoming school year after the Lafayette Parish School Board approved a change returning homework to the grading formula for sixth ...

School officials in Arlington, Virginia, are planning to table proposed changes to the school system’s homework policy to give staff more time to evaluate the impact of some of the recommendations.

Grading homework assignments for a large class can be a time-consuming chore, and overworked teaching assistants often have little time to give students detailed feedback. But help may be on the way: ...

In its first meeting of the 2015-16 school year, the Palo Alto school board will tackle a 200-plus page research report that sheds light on both similarities and disparities in curriculum, homework, ...