Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Kevin Longonop, 10, is being assisted by his mother Viola Longonop to finish homework at their home at Kambi Samaki in ...

Harris Cooper, professor of psychology at Duke, reviewed more than 60 studies regarding the amount of time a child might do homework to achieve the optimal results. In a paper, published in 2006, he ...

Although the homework wars of past years seems to have subsided, the debate continues over whether kids benefit from after-school assignments. Parents are divided on the value of homework. Some ...

Despite debates in the media over whether American students are academically overburdened, 85 percent of parents believe their children are doing the “right amount” or “too little” homework, and three ...

Homework isn’t always a problem. Some little kids love it, as long as the demands are reasonable. But in other cases, homework interferes with more important activities like playing, daydreaming, ...

The word itself conjures up images of massive books piled high on desks. Students with frazzled looks, pencils teetering behind their ears, frantically scratching their heads for that right sentence ...

The question sounds as simple as 1+1, but the answer is more like the unsolved Collatz Conjecture -- a problem stumping even the smartest minds for decades. Fifteen years have passed since I graduated ...

When my daughter, Khaya, entered kindergarten at a Brooklyn charter school two years ago, I knew her homework would be considerable. Her school, like many others, strongly believes that nightly ...

Kevin Longonop, 10, is being assisted by his mother Viola Longonop to finish homework at their home at Kambi Samaki in Baringo County in June this year. [File, Standard] What, exactly, is the place of ...