A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: There would be no more homework. None of the 2,500 students in this district ...

Some experts worry that less homework could be a problem for math achievement, at a time when test scores nationwide are ...

I think there are more meaningful ways to spend the after school hours. I typically tell teachers that our family won't be completing homework. Sometimes, my fourth grader still wants to do the ...

Q: My daughter e-mailed her child’s fourth-grade teacher saying that her child had been averaging about two hours of homework a night. The child has no time for doing kid things after school, as she ...