Homework used to be a means of practicing what we’d learned. These days, it's the primary instruction method. Somewhere along the line, teachers stopped teaching full lessons in class and started ...

It’s 7:00 p.m. on a Tuesday. You ask if homework is done and hear, “I don't have any” or “I did it at school.” You know it’s probably not true, so you insist on seeing their assignment notebook or ...