The nation's best-known researcher on homework has taken a new look at the subject, and here is what Duke University professor Harris Cooper has to say: Elementary school students get no academic ...

All children — and former children with decent memories — are familiar with the downsides of homework: frustration, exhaustion, family conflict, reduced time for other activities, and, often, ...

From kindergartners to college students, they would all tell you the same thing: we need less homework. Met by the rolling eyes of teachers and parents, the call to less or no homework at all is often ...