Aug. 20—I stared at the last question on my daughter's first-grade math homework as if doing so until my eyes grew callouses would cause an understanding of what it was asking her to do. Arlie wiggled ...

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.

After the relentless cycle of keeping up with a wide variety of complex news topics, I came home to one of my biggest challenges of the week … my daughter’s first grade math homework. It’s not that I ...