A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: There would be no more homework. None of the 2,500 students in this district ...

What parent does not want their child to thrive in school? Yet, in our eagerness to help during homework time, we can sometimes end up doing more harm than good. Managing homework can quickly turn ...

Children are more successful with homework when they have a consistent routine for doing it — but when it comes to the actual time, one size doesn’t fit all. When the school year begins, experiment ...

THE top things children would do to make the world a better place include banning homework, helping those in need more, and ...

Homework was probably first assigned the first time a teacher was frustrated that students weren’t learning enough—and that's probably when civilization began. Since then, legions of kids have pleaded ...

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 ...