As a new school year approaches, I am noticing the dread of homework time again at our home. My son, who is still struggling to read, can be having a great day and when I just say the words “It's time ...

“A good way to think about homework is the way you think about medications,” says Duke University psychology professor Harris Cooper. “If you take too little, they’ll have no effect. If you take too ...

Q: I suspect my second-grader used an answer key a couple of times this week to improve her math-homework scores. I became suspicious when she scored 100 percent. When I asked about the grade, she ...

Many parents and educators have accepted the fact that homework is part of the learning process. But when does it become too much for students to handle? Homework is nothing new, but many parents are ...

I think there are more meaningful ways to spend the after school hours. I typically tell teachers that our family won't be completing homework. Sometimes, my fourth grader still wants to do the ...

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Even though he carries a backpack heavily weighted with textbooks that he needs to do homework, Kevin Dillon, a senior at Lyons Township High School, says it’s a load he can handle. Homework can be a ...

In mid- to late-December, it finally and gloriously arrives—winter vacation! But your child may not leave school with an empty backpack. Instead, she may return with one or more homework assignments ...

Apr. 27—The National Education Association and the National Parent Teacher Association both largely support setting a homework limit for out of school assignments to 10 minutes per grade level, which ...

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