The school year has officially begun, and with that comes the dreaded homework. The older you get, the busier each night becomes. Listening to music while doing homework has become ubiquitous among ...

In a new study, the Center for American Progress delves into the quality of American homework assignments and finds a lot of them don't demand much from students besides basic skills. The study ...

The optimal amount of homework for 13-year-old students is about an hour a day, a study published earlier this month in the Journal of Educational Psychology suggests. And spending too much time on ...