My column Saturday on the campaign by a San Marino mom to persuade school officials to cut back on “useless and ineffective” homework assignments uncorked a storm of bottled-up angst among readers, ...

All school-aged kids have some form of homework. It starts out light -- maybe just a reading log and the occasional worksheet -- and it stokes up to to as much as an hour a night by the time the kid's ...

For many, summer went too quickly and, for others, school routines couldn’t come soon enough. Either way, school is back in session and for many it means the dreaded homework battles are back on. Most ...

Homework is as American as, well, mom and apple pie. It’s a concept that has spanned generations (and likely maintained its unpopularity with each new generation of students who take it on). While ...