Creating tasks with a focus on students’ autonomy—by providing choices, for example—helps them see the relevance of homework.

School assignments that a student is expected to do outside of the regular school day—that’s homework. The general guideline is 10 minutes of nightly homework per grade level beginning after ...

When a student turns in a writing assignment done at home and it’s clear parts of the finished piece don’t represent the kind of work the student usually does in the classroom, should the teacher ...

American teenagers, on average, are spending less time on homework than they did a generation ago—and the decline has steepened since the pandemic. The homework slide, happening since at least the ...

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