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 ...

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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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