Some experts worry that less homework could be a problem for math achievement, at a time when test scores nationwide are ...

A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: There would be no more homework. None of the 2,500 students in this district ...

An Iowa woman jokingly calls it "Satan's handiwork." A California mom says she's broken down in tears. A Pennsylvania parent says it "makes my blood boil." What could be so horrible? Grade-school math ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A leading educator has weighed in on the debate surrounding a seemingly impossible math problem allegedly set as homework ...

Student work posted in an elementary school before the pandemic shows the “partial product” method of solving a multiplication problem, one of many methods students have learned with Common Core.