How much, if any, homework should elementary school students receive? It is an age-old and ongoing debate. But the discussion misses a fundamental part of the controversy: Teachers often don’t take ...

Sixth graders in the math class taught by Marietta Gibb and Nicole Parasiliti at DeWitt Middle School in Ithaca work in small groups, allowing kids to practice different skills in the same classroom.

Learning how to buckle down and do the work takes intentional action. Distractions, teen life, and life, in general, can make it difficult to keep up with a school workload. Experts in education ...

Top students can benefit greatly by being offered the subject early. But many districts offer few Black and Latino eighth graders a chance to study it. By Troy Closson From suburbs in the Northeast to ...