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Primary school children get little academic benefit from homework
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Homework
May 11, 2022
All kids should have homework even aged four – it needs to be hard, that’s how they learn
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Feb 28, 2022
Should homework be set a term in advance?
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Feb 15, 2022
Teachers and too much homework contribute to maths anxiety – study
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Feb 7, 2022
Millions of British parents dread moment their child brings home Maths homework
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Jan 27, 2022
Millions of British parents dread the moment their child brings home Maths homework
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Jan 27, 2022
Homework: Who invented it and how has it changed since it was first thought up?
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Sep 10, 2021
Many parents unable to help their children with homework
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Aug 30, 2021
Keep parents out of it: the expert who wants schools to give up weekly spelling tests
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Jul 3, 2021
Research: Online vs. traditional homework
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Jun 27, 2021
Homework ruins family life and stops children having hobbies, says Prof Robert Winston
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May 27, 2021
Should homework be banned? Experts clash over whether teachers are to blame for not making it more 'appealing'
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May 27, 2021
Teachers want less homework, less marking and a different job
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May 25, 2021
Scottish election 2021: Greens pledge to scrap homework for primary school pupils
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Apr 12, 2021
Scrap primary school homework, say Scottish Greens
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Apr 12, 2021
Scottish Election 2021: Move to abolish homework
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Apr 12, 2021
Encouraging self-regulated learning through effective homework
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Jan 18, 2021
Children without laptops or who can't work at home can go into school
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Jan 6, 2021
Using ASSISTments to support middle school math homework
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Jul 7, 2020
Let's not return to burdening families with homework
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Jun 10, 2020
Teachers told not to mark homework to avoid spread of coronavirus
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May 18, 2020
I can't wait for the school holidays. I can finally stop doing my kids' homework
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Apr 5, 2020
Homework in the time of Corona
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Apr 3, 2020
Maths homework effort: Increasing autonomous motivation through support from family and school
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Mar 31, 2020
Life under coronavirus lockdown: Oh, the tantrums and tears of home school. Some weren’t even mine
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Mar 29, 2020
Homework: is the outcome worth the stress?
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Mar 14, 2020
Ireland: Fine Gael ‘open to dropping primary homework’
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Jan 28, 2020
The reciprocal effects of homework self-concept, interest and effort on maths achievement
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Jan 21, 2020
Head tells parents to quit WhatsApp groups so pupils learn from errors
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Jan 13, 2020
Outrage as school asks pupils to imagine they're Manchester bombing victim's parents
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Dec 18, 2019
Bridlington school says sorry for homework on terrorist forgiveness
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Dec 18, 2019
School sparks fury after asking students to pen forgiveness letter to Manchester Arena terrorist
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Dec 17, 2019
Bridlington High School students aged 12 made to to do homework about Manchester terror attack
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Dec 17, 2019
Why we all need to stop setting project-based homework
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Dec 15, 2019
Should elementary students have homework?
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Oct 14, 2019
Don't set homework - get students to find a new hobby
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Oct 13, 2019
Mental health: homework 'linked to unhappiness'
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Oct 10, 2019
5 rules to make homework worth their time (and yours)
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Sep 29, 2019
Ofsted defends removing homework from school inspection
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Sep 2, 2019
Ofsted cuts homework checks from inspections
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Sep 1, 2019
Twins and the relationship between homework and the academic progress of children
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Aug 12, 2019
Ofsted is to stop asking parents for their views about children's homework
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Jul 15, 2019
Ofsted to stop asking parents about homework
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Jul 15, 2019
Parents avoiding homework is ‘perfectly understandable’
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Jun 8, 2019
How can parents help with homework?
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Jun 1, 2019
66% of primary school children feel anxious about homework and lessons, research finds
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May 10, 2019
Four in 10 UK adults regret not taking maths more seriously at school, poll claims
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Apr 4, 2019
Does the thought of a robot marking your child’s homework fill you with fear or joy?
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Apr 1, 2019
Parents 'hire private tutors for help understanding their children's homework'
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Mar 27, 2019
Baffled parents are hiring £40-an-hour tutors so they can understand their children's homework
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Mar 27, 2019
Baffled parents hire their own tutors
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Mar 27, 2019
Teacher, the dog aids my schoolwork
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Mar 22, 2019
When pupils don’t return homework – what can we do?
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Mar 19, 2019
Setting great homework: The Mode A:Mode B approach
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Mar 11, 2019
Parents’ fears about artificial intelligence in schools
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Feb 25, 2019
Why primary teachers should think twice about setting homework
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Feb 12, 2019
Scotland: Needless homework is robbing children of vital family time | Samantha Tassiker
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Jan 8, 2019
The Cardiff primary school with no homework where parents say their children flourish
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Dec 27, 2018
8 reasons to ditch the holiday homework
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Dec 17, 2018
Are primary schools setting too much homework?
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Dec 6, 2018
Furious parents blast primary school for making pupils research whether Santa is real
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Dec 5, 2018
Children as young as nine asked if Santa is real for homework sparking outrage from parents
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Dec 5, 2018
Children as young as nine are asked 'is Santa real?' for homework sparking furious parents to accuse headteacher of 'taking away magic of Christmas'
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Dec 5, 2018
5 tips for organising homework
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Dec 1, 2018
Primary school abolishes written homework because it is causing too much stress for pupils (and teachers)
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Nov 29, 2018
Primary school bans homework because kids find it too 'stressful'
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Nov 29, 2018
Primary school scraps homework for pupils over fears it causes too much stress
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Nov 28, 2018
More primary schools could scrap homework – a former classroom teacher’s view
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Nov 14, 2018
EAL parents 'can't engage with school life'
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Nov 1, 2018
Damian Hinds: Homework ‘integral part of learning’
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Damian Hinds
Oct 28, 2018
Education minister Damian Hinds backs heads over homework
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Damian Hinds
Oct 28, 2018
Education secretary Damian Hinds: homework teaches valuable lessons in character
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Damian Hinds
Oct 28, 2018
Think your child Is getting too much homework? Here's what you can do
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Oct 25, 2018
Primary pupils facing five hours of homework a week
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Oct 25, 2018
Why the hippies are wrong about homework | Emma Duncan
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Oct 24, 2018
Primary school parents join Gary Lineker and Kirstie Allsopp in opposition to homework
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Oct 21, 2018
USA: Homework for three-year-olds? They’re too young to enter the rat race | Emma Brockes
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Oct 19, 2018
Homework helps pupils learn good habits
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Oct 14, 2018
Scotland: Parents too scared to help children with maths homework
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Oct 6, 2018
Tech giants ‘tempt pupils from work’
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Oct 1, 2018
‘Lazy’ parents don’t do homework with their children but those who do foster a love of learning
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Sep 27, 2018
Homework at 7 is a joke, says comic Rob Delaney
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Sep 27, 2018
Should we scrap homework?
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Sep 26, 2018
Do kids get too much homework?
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Play
Sep 25, 2018
How can parents help with homework?
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Aug 29, 2018
Boy campaigning to scrap homework says it made his GCSE results worse
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Aug 24, 2018
London businesses offer study space to students as libraries close
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Jul 12, 2018
Should we set homework for the summer break?
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Jun 10, 2018
Teachers: Overhaul homework and stop parents creating ‘masterpieces’
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Scotland
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Jun 9, 2018
Poor broadband means Conwy valley girl does homework in lay-by
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Wales
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May 25, 2018
Teenagers shun homework for social media and video games
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May 15, 2018
How parents can support their children with homework
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May 14, 2018
'Ridiculous' primary school homework aimed at 8-year-olds
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May 14, 2018
'Ridiculous' primary school homework aimed at 8-year-olds has mums bewildered at how hard it is
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May 14, 2018
Homework club for A-level students launches in Eurostar HQ
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May 12, 2018
Teenagers shun homework for social media and video games, new survey finds
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May 11, 2018
Most 14-year-olds do no homework on average weekday
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May 11, 2018
‘Helicopter mums’ may hinder child’s homework
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May 8, 2018
Homework: From chore to positive learning experience
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Homework
May 8, 2018
Schools who text parents about homework ‘achieve better results’
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Apr 19, 2018
Parents fed up of testing should consider home-schooling, says Ken Robinson
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Apr 16, 2018
Headteacher suspended after parent backlash over school’s controversial 'no homework' policy
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Mar 27, 2018
More than a third of parents do not think homework is helpful for primary school children, report finds
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Mar 19, 2018
School Report: What do children think about homework?
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Mar 15, 2018
School Report: Do we get too much homework?
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Mar 15, 2018
Daily roundup 9 March: Homework, failure, and child protection
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Mar 9, 2018
Are we a nation of slackers when it comes to helping kids with their homework?
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Mar 9, 2018
UK parents help less with homework
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Mar 9, 2018
British parents are bottom of the class for helping with homework
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Mar 9, 2018
British parents give children less help with education than in other countries, study says
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Mar 9, 2018
Parents 'spend little time helping with children's schoolwork' in Britain
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Mar 9, 2018
British parents help children less with homework
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Mar 9, 2018
A quarter of parents do not help children with homework 'for fear of embarrassment'
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Mar 9, 2018
Why do students fail to do their homework?
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Mar 7, 2018
YouTube is bigger distraction to children’s homework than television, survey finds
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Feb 23, 2018
Parents push school to bring back homework
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Feb 11, 2018
Parents in revolt at school's 'no homework' policy as they complain a generation will 'flunk' exams
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Jan 27, 2018
Schools clamour for app teaching maths through hip-hop
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Jan 27, 2018
'I just wanted to solve this problem for myself'
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Jan 8, 2018
Scottish pupils get maths puzzles as Christmas ‘homework’
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Dec 21, 2017
Old-fashioned educational values offer the UK’s most deprived children a future
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Dec 20, 2017
Should homework be set for the Christmas holiday?
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Dec 19, 2017
Five ways to take the hassle out of homework
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Nov 15, 2017
Sunderland stepdad explains Islam homework complaint
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Nov 10, 2017
How my school takes the stress off teachers
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Sep 22, 2017
Poorer pupils get less help with homework than better-off peers, study finds
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Sep 7, 2017
Four things PISA tells us about after-school learning
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Sep 7, 2017
Homework lessons from PISA: looking past the headlines
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Sep 7, 2017
Poor pupils get less tutoring and homework help - study
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Sep 7, 2017
Homework lessons from PISA
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Sep 7, 2017
Poorer pupils get less homework help
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Sep 7, 2017
Nearly third of pupils have received private tuition
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Sep 7, 2017
Back to school
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Sep 5, 2017
School's out!
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Jul 21, 2017
Homework should count in 20% off-the-job training rule
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Jul 17, 2017
Homework contracts raise standards, report claims
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Jul 17, 2017
Where children live increasingly important for educational outcomes, says new report
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Jul 13, 2017
The 6 key policy recommendations from the Social Market Foundation’s inequality study
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Jul 13, 2017
Scotland: Schools survey points to poverty blight for pupils
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Jul 7, 2017
Longfield: Child vulnerability data is 'tip of the iceberg'
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Jul 4, 2017
Homework habits: what we have learned at Michaela
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Jun 24, 2017
New Zealand: No classrooms, lessons or homework: New Zealand school where children are free to roam
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Jun 20, 2017
Don’t let homework become a blight on children’s lives
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Jun 9, 2017
Secondary schoolwork 'confuses' parents
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May 23, 2017
Ban holiday homework and allow children to relax, says headmaster
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May 22, 2017
Marijuana use linked to poorer school performance, major new research reveals
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May 11, 2017
Daily roundup 9 May: Schools funding, foster care inquiry, and homework
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May 9, 2017
Fake news plague is spreading to schoolchildren’s homework says teachers’ union
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Apr 13, 2017
Why parents who try to help with maths homework might not be doing any good
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Apr 11, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 24 March 2017
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Mar 24, 2017
Survey finds exchange students think US high schools easier
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Mar 22, 2017
The secret of happy children? Get rid of teachers and ban homework
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Mar 17, 2017
The great homework debate
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Mar 14, 2017
EEF toolkit 'more akin to pig farming than science'
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Mar 10, 2017
Parents outraged after primary school children quizzed over parents' smoking and drinking
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Mar 6, 2017
Dear Justine Greening, homework widens the gap between rich and poor children | Michael Rosen
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Feb 28, 2017
Ohio policeman helps girl, 10, with maths homework
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Feb 21, 2017
Homework: is it worth the hassle?
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Feb 7, 2017
Timss: England's pupils do less homework and seven other things we learned from today's study
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Nov 29, 2016
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Nov 28, 2016
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Nov 28, 2016
Scrap hard homework, it’s too stressful...for parents!
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Nov 20, 2016
Why the ban on homework deserves a top mark - just let kids be kids
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Nov 8, 2016
Scottish primary school stops setting homework
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Nov 7, 2016
Primary school bans homework after pupils and parents voted to read books instead
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Nov 7, 2016
Parents support pupils in vote to stop homework
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Nov 7, 2016
Pupils and parents at Fort William school vote to scrap homework
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Nov 6, 2016
Primary school drops homework and tells pupils to read comics instead after parents vote
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Nov 6, 2016
Jane Bradley: Homework for primary school kids doesn’t add up
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Nov 5, 2016
Parents in Spain go on homework strike
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Nov 4, 2016
'My son works until midnight': parents around the world on homework
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Nov 3, 2016
A gold star to any parent who rebels against homework | Tom Bennett
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Nov 3, 2016
Spanish parents urged to put children on weekend homework strike
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Nov 2, 2016
Parents in the UK and abroad: do your children get set too much homework?
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Nov 2, 2016
Secondary school head who scrapped homework is reported to Ofsted
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