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We're more than three months into the school year, and even though we have our school-year routines established, there's still one contentious spot in my household: homework. My son is in fourth grade ...

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A year and a half ago, I was fully immersed in the routine of being a high-school junior. On an average night, my Internet tabs looked something like this: page 2 of a desperate Google search on ...

Homework. The perennial point of contention sparks anxiety in kids who have to do it, parents who have to make sure they do it (or, in some households, do it for the kids), and teachers who have to ...

What happens when a father, alarmed by his 13-year-old daughter's nightly workload, tries to do her homework for a week? Memorisation, not rationalisation. That is the advice of my 13-year-old ...