That includes daily homework, which researchers say has no value in elementary school (other than to read). In this post, a parent explains why she doesn’t want her kindergartner doing it.

The story started when the child brought home a homework assignment sheet that included practicing psalms with an adult, reading pages from a “Fun with Friends” text, spelling and arithmetic ...

The homework assignment sheet Schram’s daughter brought home contained several examples of innocuous ballads, including “The Eastland,” a song about the 1915 sinking of a ship in the Chicago ...