GRAND RAPIDS, Mich — With a new school year underway, chances are your student is already coming home with homework. How can parents help their children ace those assignments? Read on to learn tips ...
Creating tasks with a focus on students’ autonomy—by providing choices, for example—helps them see the relevance of homework.
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Christine Michel Carter covers working mothers, diversity, and jobs. When students start the year eager and prepared, they not ...
Most kids and their parents hate homework, or at best don’t see the point of it. Teachers are not that fond of homework either, but they are expected to assign it. I will not be reviewing the merits ...
It’s 6 PM. Dinner’s half-cooked. Your child is slouched over a notebook, pencil idle, frustration bubbling. Sound familiar? Homework time often becomes the most stressful part of a family’s day. Kids ...
PORTAGE, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - Now that school is back in session, your child will likely bring schoolwork home. So how much should you as a parent participate in that homework and what are the best ...
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, ...
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Why homework became a substitute for bad teaching

Homework used to be a means of practicing what we’d learned. These days, it's the primary instruction method. Somewhere along ...