If you’re a student, one of the more mundane, but vital, tasks you need to do is keep track of homework and other assignments. Any good calendar program can do this, including OS X’s own iCal, but I ...

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.

School assignments that a student is expected to do outside of the regular school day—that’s homework. The general guideline is 10 minutes of nightly homework per grade level beginning after ...