TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp has claimed that primary school homework should be made “reading only” to help relieve the pressure teachers face. She said the removal of written homework could help to ...

Students in primary schools are being assigned nearly three times the amount recommended by the National Education Association (NEA), according to new research appearing in the American Journal of ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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