Jami Dehn prepped homework packets to send home with her class of third-graders every Friday afternoon last year, carefully charting how much they should read, write in cursive and practice spelling.

He’d accidentally exposed a yet-to-be-announced grading policy (the “fifty-percent” rule). The teachers in the room were apoplectic. To them, giving half credit to a student who turned in no ...

The parent believed the question was poorly written and should have been multiple choice if limited responses were desired.

The value of homework is suddenly under the microscope, and leaders of the Lafayette Parish school district have decided it should no longer be graded. School districts around the state also are ...

MERRIMACK — After a failed lawsuit to halt the practice, for the third year in a row the grades local students earn for homework won’t count toward their overall semester grade. Bob Bevill, a local ...

A recent survey of nearly 1,000 K-12 teachers found that about half had seen “equitable” grading policies used in their ...

School officials in Arlington, Virginia, are planning to table proposed changes to the school system’s homework policy to give staff more time to evaluate the impact of some of the recommendations.