Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Parents should make use of a little-known power to negotiate with teachers over the volume of homework set for their children. As the ...

A primary school has banned homework over fears it causes too much "stress". Instead of taking their school books home with them at the end of each day, children at Littletown Primary Academy in ...

HOMEWORK for primary school children is not only a source of tension and stress but also has ‘zero benefits’, according to experts calling for it to be axed in Australia. After-hours school tasks ...

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 ...

Saltwater P-9 College says it is trying to balance the expectations, aspirations and needs of its families by clearly spelling out its homework policy. Homework is a vexed issue for primary schools, ...

President Michael D Higgins ignited a national conversation about homework when he told primary school students that he believed schoolwork should be completed in school – and that children should be ...

Only a third of parents feel comfortable helping their child with homework according to a new study. It's a fact of life as a parent that the time will eventually come when you have to assist with ...

Local tutoring companies say it’s because some parents struggle to keep pace with homework loads as kids are being left to learn more than ever outside the classroom. It comes after a parliamentary ...

People have been trying to work out if homework is a good thing or a bad thing for many years. Recently, a report about teaching in primary schools was done by an organisation called the TSC, which ...

Many young pupils find the burden "upsetting", damaging their relationships with parents, it was claimed. The Association of Teachers and Lecturers told how one school sent under-11s on Easter ...

The majority of parents would struggle to help a seven-year-old with their homework, a study has found. Helping a child with their homework is part and parcel of being a parent or guardian. However, ...