It was the night we wove an Iroquois cradle board out of natural fibrous materials that drove me over the edge. It was 9 p.m., an hour after bedtime, when Sophie suddenly remembered that in addition ...

Even before her son finished fifth grade, Sally Cook knew he had landed in homework hell. “I could see the circles under his eyes, and I could sense the whole burnout feeling,” she says. At one point, ...

It’s 10 p.m. I’ll tell you where your children are. Homework hell. Manhattan private schools assure reasonable homework limits at the lower and middle school levels, and at 20- to 30-minutes per ...

Jason Wilson*, an Albuquerque middle schooler, has been a good student. But, though he tests above grade level, he has been floundering for two straight semesters. His mom, Georgia, is convinced that ...