Historian Amanda Foreman searches the past for the origins of today’s world. Read previous columns here. If American schoolchildren no longer had to do hours of homework each night, a lot of dogs ...

Homework has been tied to school for as long as most of us can remember. Ask any student what school is like, and you'll hear about tests, teachers and homework. But with the way learning shifted ...

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