Creating tasks with a focus on students’ autonomy—by providing choices, for example—helps them see the relevance of homework.

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The optimal amount of homework for 13-year-old students is about an hour a day, a study published earlier this month in the Journal of Educational Psychology suggests. And spending too much time on ...