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Homework is an outdated concept, a relic from a time when schools valued compliance over curiosity. Children already give their best hours under the weight of bells and schedules, yet we demand their ...

A debate has been sparked around the role of homework in educating pupils following comments by well-known education professor Jonathan Jansen, who argues that it is a "middle-class concept" that ...