A year and a half ago, I was fully immersed in the routine of being a high-school junior. On an average night, my Internet tabs looked something like this: page 2 of a desperate Google search on ...

We're more than three months into the school year, and even though we have our school-year routines established, there's still one contentious spot in my household: homework. My son is in fourth grade ...

While sitting down at my computer to commence a brain dump on all the things I want to say about this topic, I’m simultaneously fussing at my middle schooler to start his homework on the last of our ...

What happens when a father, alarmed by his 13-year-old daughter's nightly workload, tries to do her homework for a week? Memorisation, not rationalisation. That is the advice of my 13-year-old ...

Source: Flickr Creative Commons/Alberto G. With the school in full swing for so many youth, I wanted to share some comments that students across the nation have shared in response to my blogs on ...

As parents in Spain call for month-long boycott of homework due to ‘unacceptable’ workloads, we asked your views of extracurricular work It’s a familiar phrase for anyone with children: “I don’t want ...