NEW YORK -- It's a dream come true -- at least, for a fifth grader. Elementary school students in one Long Island town will be a little less disappointed at summer's end now that the school district ...

CORONADO (CBS 8) - Are school kids in Coronado stressed out by too much homework? There's a plan on the table to let them off the hook on weekends and on holidays. In this News 8 video story, Richard ...

A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: No more homework. Since then, none of the 2,500 students in this district — ...

When Vanity Fair reported Kim Kardashian’s comments that she “doesn’t believe in homework” and “kids are already in school eight hours a day,” she voiced a concern many families recognize: When the ...

On the first day of school, teacher Maya Kruger announced to her sixth-graders at St. Anthony Middle School that her policy is to give them time to work on their assignments in class. Anything that ...

From kindergartners to college students, they would all tell you the same thing: we need less homework. Met by the rolling eyes of teachers and parents, the call to less or no homework at all is often ...

Some experts worry that less homework could be a problem for math achievement, at a time when test scores nationwide are already at a dismal low. A few days into the new semester this January, the ...