Teachers from Durban primary school, Charles Hugo, share their homework advice for parents this back to school season.

University of Stirling provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. At the beginning of this school year, it wasn’t just children who were grumbling about homework. A despairing comment on ...

Students in primary schools are being assigned nearly three times the amount recommended by the National Education Association (NEA), according to new research appearing in the American Journal of ...

Playing video games with children after school would be better than enforcing homework – that’s the surprising advice from an Australian education expert. Queensland-based Connor Greene said ...

“Homework in primary school has an effect of around zero”. We’ve all been there – sitting at the kitchen table, feverishly finishing our spelling while an anxious parent coaxes us along. For ...

Do you know how long children should be taking to do their homework by age, or do you think your child is taking too long to ...

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