WHAT KIDS HAVE long suspected and grownups won’t admit is true: Parents hate homework too. While all parents want their children to excel, many fret over how much time homework takes up–and what kids ...

In recent years, homework has become a very hot topic. Many parents and educators have raised concerns about homework and questioned how effective it is in enhancing students’ learning. There are also ...

Harris Cooper, professor of psychology at Duke, reviewed more than 60 studies regarding the amount of time a child might do homework to achieve the optimal results. In a paper, published in 2006, he ...

Boys who play video games on school days spend 30 percent less time reading, and girls spend 34 percent less time doing homework than those who do not play such games, U.S. researchers said Monday.

Do you ever wonder whether homework is gauging the child’s ability to complete assignments or the parent’s? On one end of the spectrum, a parent might never mention homework and assume it gets done ...

It’s the time of year when the homework battles are in full swing. When trying to juggle an already busy schedule of school, work, extracurricular activities, parent-teacher conferences, assemblies ...

Sachem was the last straw. Â Or was it Kiva? My 12-year-old daughter and I had been drilling social-studies key words for more than an hour. It was 11 p.m. Our entire evening had, as usual, consisted ...

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