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Kids and parents dislike math homework, so teachers are scrapping it. Will students be better off?

A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: There would be no more homework. None of the 2,500 students in this district ...

Should schools get rid of homework? Some educators are saying yes

Some experts worry that less homework could be a problem for math achievement, at a time when test scores nationwide are ...
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Jenna Bush Hager Says Daughter's 5th Grade Math Homework Is 'So Hard': 'They Don't Do It the Right Way'

Bush Hager shares her three kids with husband Henry Hager Nathan Congleton/NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Jenna Bush Hager is getting real about how tough kids' homework can be! On Monday's episode of Today ...
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Kids talk about a time when homework was fun

As part of the ongoing Kid's Page series, NJ Advance Media asks students in kindergarten through the eighth grade to answer questions or complete a sentence. This week's sentence is: It was homework, ...