It’s 7:00 p.m. on a Tuesday. You ask if homework is done and hear, “I don't have any” or “I did it at school.” You know it’s probably not true, so you insist on seeing their assignment notebook or ...

A new school year brings a lot of challenges: new friends, new lingo to keep up with, and a steadily increasing pile of homework. Keeping your kids focused on their work can be an absolute nightmare ...

A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: No more homework. Since then, none of the 2,500 students in this district — ...