The “homework grid” strategy requires children to perform household chores and reading and spelling tasks every day but gives them up to a month to complete maths, science and technology tasks.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Parents are applauding efforts by primary schools to drop stressful, time-consuming homework, even as experts say it is often parents ...

When students come to school with a school project worthy of a Nobel prize, teachers know they didn’t do it by themselves and didn’t learn much in the process. Then there are those that look like a ...