REDMOND, Wash., June 24, 2002 — Although most students are hanging up their book bags for the summer, parents and teachers are heating up plans for next year. Today at the annual National PTA ...

Homework is one of those hot-button topics that never fails to set off a wide range of responses when people are asked about its value. From ardent backers of the age-old practice to absolute ...

Nearly six decades ago, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, and for a generation of American children school nights would never be the same. Many school systems had dropped homework in the 1940s, but ...