The decision to enter into any sort of mental health treatment is never easy. When I went back to therapy over a year ago, I went at the encouragement of friends who noticed I wasn’t acting like ...

Homework: one word that makes the heart of many a parent sink and is guaranteed, at any given time, to be causing rows in homes around the world. The homework debate has raged for decades. How much ...

Brandy Young might be onto something huge. On Tuesday, August 16, the second-grade teacher at Godley Elementary School in Godley, Texas, sent out a letter to parents explaining her no homework-policy.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- A new program offers free homework help for parents and students struggling with remote learning. It's staffed by volunteers and organized by a local congresswoman. As CBS2's ...

AS the Los Angeles Unified School District engages in a heated homework debate, the rest of the world is also reconsidering this standard feature of public education. A group of French parents and ...

It's the letter from a teacher that's been read around the world, leaving many parents wishing their own children were in Brandy Young's second grade class. "After much research this summer, I am ...

America's second largest school district is joining a nationwide revolt against homework. Starting July 1, the Los Angeles Unified School District will mandate that homework can only count for 10 ...

How to deal with the rude K-12 achievement gap in Los Angeles? District officials have a new solution that should be pretty popular all-around. Based on the theory that homework is more likely to be ...

Most American students spend less than an hour a day on homework, according to a pair of national studies presented last week, and that workload is no bigger than it was half a century ago. “Do ...

The optimal amount of homework for 13-year-old students is about an hour a day, a study published earlier this month in the Journal of Educational Psychology suggests. And spending too much time on ...