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 ...

Source: Carl Pickhardt Ph. D. Back to school changes life for everyone in the family in many ways. Consider one: homework starts again. As in many aspects of parenting adolescents, there is a wide ...

Although often starting in the elementary grades, homework becomes more seriously given and seriously taken in middle school, when early adolescents start having a lot of other growing concerns on ...

As the school year progresses, many parents are finding that homework is consuming more of their family evenings than in previous years. This shift has raised concerns about the balance between ...

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 ...