If you’ve ever wondered exactly how many pictures of dolls there are in the American Girl catalogue, which magically arrives at our home addressed to our 6-year-old as if she had her own Visa card, I ...

When I toured a public elementary school last spring, one question in particular seemed to make the principal squirm. Do the kindergartners get homework, I asked? Yes, he replied, explaining that it ...

Parents and children battle about homework all the time -- and this mom just wants to get it done. DimaBerlin - stock.adobe.com Homework: the nightly battlefield where parents and kids clash over math ...

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Parents want their kids to be successful. Sometimes, parents are a bit too obsessed with this idea, though, and they try to take matters into their own hands. That’s what happened to one mom who was ...

Homework may have a positive influence on students’ conscientiousness. Students who do more homework than their peers show positive changes in conscientiousness, according to new research. Thus, ...

A little boy named Edward Immaunel Cortez is taking a stand against homework, once and for all. In a now-viral "essay" that's making its way around the Twittersphere, he declared that he wasn't doing ...

A handful of Corpus Christi elementary schools are taking a new approach to homework to ease student stress and encourage family time. Starting this year, teachers at Barnes, Kolda and Dawson ...

Does your kid constantly complain about hours and hours of homework? If you're Italian, it could reach fever-pitch! According to research conducted by the OECD, 15-year old children in Italy have to ...

A mother in China has begun live-streaming her son’s homework sessions on the internet so that viewers can tell her if he slacks off. Ms Zhang, from Sichuan province in south-west China, said that on ...