It’s 6 PM. Dinner’s half-cooked. Your child is slouched over a notebook, pencil idle, frustration bubbling. Sound familiar? Homework time often becomes the most stressful part of a family’s day. Kids ...

Chelsea was in 10th grade the first time I told her directly to stop doing her homework and get some sleep. I had been working with her since she was in middle school, treating her anxiety disorder.

A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: No more homework. Since then, none of the 2,500 students in this district — ...

Federal survey data suggests that the amount of math homework assigned to fourth and eighth grade students, in particular, has been steadily declining for the past decade. Credit: Stanislaw ...

Federal survey data suggests that the amount of math homework assigned to fourth and eighth grade students, in particular, has been declining. A few days into the new semester this January, the ...