Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It should be the exception, not the rule How long is your child’s workweek? Thirty hours? Forty? Would it surprise you to learn ...

Finding time for homework can be tough, is there too much homework? It’s not hard to find a high school student who is stressed about homework. Many are stressed to the max--juggling extracurricular ...

BEAVERTON, Ore. — Junior year of high school has that reputation for being the toughest. “Supposedly the hardest just got harder,” said Levi Houtters, a student at Sunset High School in Beaverton.

For students at competitive high schools in upper middle-class areas, homework may be a double-edged sword. The authors of a study published in the peer-refereed Journal of Experimental Education ...

RIDGEWOOD, N.J. (CBS 2) -- Homework during the winter recess, many school districts assign it. But one New Jersey high school that has been plagued by a series of tragedies wants to give students a ...

Too much homework can diminish its effectiveness and be counterproductive, said Pope and her colleagues, citing prior research suggesting that homework benefits plateau at about two hours per night ...