PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — As far as kindergartners go, 5-year-old Addrien is your typical elementary school student. He likes coloring. He likes math. And he even likes his homework. But ask ...

RACINE, WI – With Racine students heading back to school in the coming weeks, now is a great time to get prepped for the upcoming school year — and that includes setting a homework routine.

Brooklyn mom Liat Tamam (from left) sends daughters Rosa, 6, and Astrid, 3, to a no-homework school. Annie Wermiel For Liat Tamam, the daily, tearful battles over homework started soon after her ...

Comic-book publishers don't peddle their wares to kids the way they did in the good old days. But that may be changing: Educators help comics invade classrooms and libraries. Randy Dotinga reports ...

Research on how much homework kids are actually doing these days is a bit confusing. When the federally administered National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in 2012 asked students how ...

Amid Growing Debate About Homework, One School Bans It. Some research questions the value of homework prior to high school. By ABC News. September 6, 2016, 4:03 AM. 1:47.

But by high school and college, homework is absolutely essential for any student who wishes to excel. There simply isn’t time to digest Dostoyevsky if you only ever read him in class.

She is the author of “The End of Homework,” “Schools That Do Too Much” and “Identity in Metamorphosis.” The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.