Homework used to be a means of practicing what we’d learned. These days, it's the primary instruction method. Somewhere along ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Parents should make use of a little-known power to negotiate with teachers over the volume of homework set for their children. As the ...

Do primary school children really need to do homework? Not according to a motion being debated by teachers today. Calling for its abolition for this age group, the motion at the Association of ...

HOMEWORK for primary school children is not only a source of tension and stress but also has ‘zero benefits’, according to experts calling for it to be axed in Australia. After-hours school tasks ...

A primary school has banned homework over fears it causes too much "stress". Instead of taking their school books home with them at the end of each day, children at Littletown Primary Academy in ...

“Homework in primary school has an effect of around zero”. We’ve all been there – sitting at the kitchen table, feverishly finishing our spelling while an anxious parent coaxes us along. For ...

There is no law governing homework in Northern Ireland, so every school must devise their own policy and share it with ...

Saltwater P-9 College says it is trying to balance the expectations, aspirations and needs of its families by clearly spelling out its homework policy. Homework is a vexed issue for primary schools, ...

University of Stirling provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. At the beginning of this school year, it wasn’t just children who were grumbling about homework. A despairing comment on ...

President Michael D Higgins ignited a national conversation about homework when he told primary school students that he believed schoolwork should be completed in school – and that children should be ...

The majority of parents would struggle to help a seven-year-old with their homework, a study has found. Helping a child with their homework is part and parcel of being a parent or guardian. However, ...