AI is spreading in classrooms, but its impact on learning depends less on the technology than on how students use it.

Homework can be a sticking point for busy families. After experts questioned its relevance for primary schoolers, many of you weighed in on Facebook, disagreeing on how much, if any, homework is the ...

One recent report found 86 percent of students and 85 percent of teachers used AI during the 2024–2025 school year.

Homework horror stories are as timeworn as school bullies and cafeteria mystery meat. But as high-stakes testing pressures have mounted over the past decade—and global rankings for America’s schools ...

Arguments against homework are well-documented, with some parents, teachers, and researchers saying these assignments put unnecessary stress on students and may not actually be helping them learn. But ...

Homework is not useless but its quality is far more important than quantity and schools should think very carefully about why they are setting it, an education expert at the University of South ...

Children cannot be made to acquire skills. They aren’t vending machines, such that we put in more homework and get out more learning. There’s something perversely fascinating about educational ...

Sachem was the last straw. Â Or was it Kiva? My 12-year-old daughter and I had been drilling social-studies key words for more than an hour. It was 11 p.m. Our entire evening had, as usual, consisted ...

This is the third installment in our series about school in a perfect world. Read previous entries on calendars and content. We asked prominent voices in education—from policy makers and teachers to ...

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