Creating tasks with a focus on students’ autonomy—by providing choices, for example—helps them see the relevance of homework.

Although the homework wars of past years seems to have subsided, the debate continues over whether kids benefit from after-school assignments. Parents are divided on the value of homework. Some ...

Homework is as American as, well, mom and apple pie. It’s a concept that has spanned generations (and likely maintained its unpopularity with each new generation of students who take it on). While ...

More than 50% of 1,274 young people ages 14 to 22 reported using generative AI at some point in their lives, according to a 2023 survey from NORC at the University of Chicago and other research groups ...

Editor’s note: “Behind the News” is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT.