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 ...

“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 ...

Playing video games with children after school would be better than enforcing homework – that’s the surprising advice from an Australian education expert. Queensland-based Connor Greene said ...

Just one look at your child’s face after school and you know you’re in for a long night struggling with math homework, answering questions about past and present tenses and giving advice about what ...

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