OK, but I had questions. If the issue really is this black-and-white, why do elementary school teachers still assign homework? How much homework are elementary kids getting, how much is too much, ...

By Saul Austerlitz My kids call me the homework villain ... life of Charles Darwin and record definitions on a notepad (how do you say “fossil” in Hebrew?). The effort was often draining ...

But the question of how much work children should be doing outside of school remains controversial, and plenty of parents take issue with no-homework policies, worried their kids are losing a ...