Feeling overwhelmed by all of your assignments? You wouldn’t be the first, nor the only one. Do you know that 56% of students consider homework to be a primary source of stress? The grip ...

Some bills before California’s Legislature don’t come from passionate policy advocates or powerful interest groups. Sometimes, the inspiration comes from a family car ride. While campaigning two years ...

Is “homework time” at your house a time for stress? Frustration? Psychotherapist Dr. Erin Leonard shares a few things parents can do to help a child with homework and test stress and regulate anxiety ...

Nothing quite stresses out students and parents about the beginning of the school year as the return to homework, which for many households means nightly battles centered around completing ...

Dad walks by his 14-year-old daughter Sophie’s room and sees that she is talking on the phone. He is enraged. It is 8:30 P.M. and she has not started her homework. Dad yells at her, "Get off the phone ...

Too many children are showing signs of stress, and too many parents are finding precious family time eaten away by homework demands. Recently, I heard from a mother of a four-year-old. She said that ...

The necessity of homework has been a subject of debate since at least as far back as the 1890s, according to Joyce L. Epstein, co-director of the Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships ...

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