For a high school physics teacher, assigning less homework meant comprehensively revamping assessments and how each class ...

Rob Manning / OPB It's the first day of school Wednesday for many of the kids in OPB's long-term project the "Class of 2025." They started kindergarten together, but they're in fourth grade now at a ...

Every evening, after a full day of classes, usually followed by a two-hour basketball practice, my son, Nathaniel, climbs the stairs to his room lugging a heavy backpack and disappears into a black ...

Homework is a middle-class concept. It does not work, I discovered, in working-class schools where I spent my mornings over the past year. Like so many “common sense” ideas about schooling the world ...