After years of assigning the kind of homework she had done as a student and observing students’ disengagement with it, a teacher overhauled how she assigns math practice.

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WASHINGTON - When it comes to adolescents with math and science homework, more isn't necessarily better -- an hour a day is optimal -- but doing it alone and regularly produces the biggest knowledge ...

Funding for this work wsa received from the US Department of Education, IES Grant R305A110682, and NSF CAREER Award DRL-0746970 to Sian L. Beilock, and the NSF Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center ...