Q: Our son attends first grade at the local public school. At the beginning of the school year, all the parents were basically told that we are expected to go to the school’s parent website every day ...

inside The Express-Times. She described the frustration she and her husband feel when helping their 6-year-old son with his homework. Working with our second-grader to complete his homework correctly ...

If you have school-aged children, you likely have been spending a great deal of time and energy providing homework oversight and assistance. After all, helping our kids reach their full academic ...

Parents are often guilty of helping their children a bit too much with their homework. Sometimes it seems the homework battle can be made that little bit easier if you just tell your children what to ...

If your once-focused middle school student suddenly seems more interested in her social life than studying, it’s easy to become the Worried Parent. If you’re interested in redirecting without being ...

POWAY —— Students and parents of the Poway Unified SchoolDistrict may have less school-related work after the bell ringsnext year if the board of trustees approves a policy that wouldregulate homework ...

As the new school year begins, it’s time for me, once again, to make my perennial case against parental involvement in homework. First, it is significant to note that as recently as 40 years ago, ...

Differentiating content and instruction for each individual learner was once considered the pedagogical holy grail. Yet it could be tiresome. Offering three tiers of worksheets, four centers with ...

Q: My seventh-grader always has an excuse for not turning in homework or completing classwork. As a result, he is doing very poor work in several classes. Is there any way to make him more responsible ...