Along the bumpy return to normalcy in our pandemic-battered schools, I see an interesting movement to ease grading and homework requirements. Many educators have been promoting such changes for years, ...

Students and parents have begun suing school districts over grading policies and practices they say are unfair. As a scholar of education who studies grading practices, I’ve seen how important grades ...

MERRIMACK — After a failed lawsuit to halt the practice, for the third year in a row the grades local students earn for homework won’t count toward their overall semester grade. Bob Bevill, a local ...

There was a story in The Wall Street Journal in late April that should concern parents across America. It wasn't about inflation or the peril facing regional banks: It was more serious than that. It ...

The value of homework is suddenly under the microscope, and leaders of the Lafayette Parish school district have decided it should no longer be graded. School districts around the state also are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students and parents have begun suing school districts over grading policies and practices they say are unfair. As a scholar of ...

Rarely have I received reaction to a column as vigorous — and as negative — as the flood of emails from teachers appalled by my opposition to a plan in Arlington, Va., to strike down traditional ...

MERRIMACK – It appears students in the Merrimack School District will not be graded on homework for a third consecutive year, as a superior court has dismissed parent Robert Bevill’s lawsuit. During a ...

Homework has long been a tradition for elementary school students after spending the day at school. But Elmhurst Unit District 205 is in its second year for which district policy recommends that ...