U.S. 4th grade teachers assign less math homework than their colleagues in other nations but their students get more help with it. These are among the findings of a preliminary research study ...

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.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

My son’s fourth grade math homework has taught me an incredibly valuable lesson — about bourbon. Inappropriate association, you say? Perhaps. But if a bit of bourbon is what it takes for me to safely ...