SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) -- Guess what, kids? No homework. Really. All year. A small but growing number of elementary schools and individual teachers are doing away with the after-school chore to ...

The role of homework has long been debated in education—what’s its purpose? How much is too much? Is it effective? As schools ...

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A growing number of schools and individual teachers are limiting or eliminating homework for elementary school students. The Orchard School, an elementary school in South Burlington, Vermont, ...

A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: No more homework. Since then, none of the 2,500 students in this district — ...