The optimal amount of homework for 13-year-old students is about an hour a day, a study from Spain published last month in the Journal of Educational Psychology suggests. And spending too much time on ...

Boys who play video games on school days spend 30% less time reading and girls spend 34% less time doing homework than those who do not play such games, U.S. researchers said Monday. By Reuters, The ...

Boys who play video games on school days spend 30 percent less time reading, and girls spend 34 percent less time doing homework than those who do not play such games, U.S. researchers said Monday.

Sachem was the last straw. Â Or was it Kiva? My 12-year-old daughter and I had been drilling social-studies key words for more than an hour. It was 11 p.m. Our entire evening had, as usual, consisted ...

It’s the time of year when the homework battles are in full swing. When trying to juggle an already busy schedule of school, work, extracurricular activities, parent-teacher conferences, assemblies ...

WHAT KIDS HAVE long suspected and grownups won’t admit is true: Parents hate homework too. While all parents want their children to excel, many fret over how much time homework takes up–and what kids ...