An Indiana police dispatcher had to take a little trip down memory lane recently when she got a 911 call that took her by surprise. When Antonia Bundy of Lafayette answered the call, she heard a child ...

I'm the parent of a 13-year-old middle school student. I've noticed that with this new school year, the curriculum has ratcheted up a level in terms of difficulty. The homework seems to be much ...

New research shows that some students are doing more than three hours of homework a night – and that all that school work may be literally making them sick. It may be tempting to dismiss this latest ...

My 6-year-old daughter came home from school with a homework assignment this weekend. She's supposed to make a diorama of a frog habitat in a shoebox. That shouldn’t be too hard, right? A little moss, ...

Q: My 14-year-old son is in Grade 9 and he has so much more homework than he ever has before. Every day is a battle to get him to do it. He’s doing well in school, but I am so tired of fighting with ...

The legislation doesn't ban homework, but it encourages school districts to establish homework policies for all grades. The goal is to "promote evidence-based homework practices to support pupil ...

SOMETIMES it can genuinely feel like it would be easier to do ten rounds with a champion boxer instead of getting your child to sit down and complete their homework. And let’s face it – even as adults ...