Editor’s Note: Elissa Strauss writes about the politics and culture of parenthood. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. We live, for the most part, fairly similar lives to our next-door ...

Some schools are eliminating homework, citing research showing it doesn’t do much to boost achievement. But maybe teachers just need to assign a different kind of homework. In 2016, a second-grade ...

America has long had a fickle relationship with homework. A century or so ago, progressive reformers argued that it made kids unduly stressed, which later led in some cases to district-level bans on ...