He had dinner at seven p.m., after which he sat down to do homework for two to three hours a night. Quickly doing the math in my head, I calculated that Timothy spent an average of thirteen hours ...

Nancy Ortenberg is happy about the change. “Homework is much more meaningful now,” said Ortenberg, whose daughter Isabelle, 9, was in school before the policy took effect in 2007.

As Christmas draws near, we all have a wish list for gifts. For this boy in China, all he hopes for is a desk lamp for him to do homework at night.. The child, a fourth-grade pupil, has been ...

In grades 4 and 5, their youngest, teachers try to give no more than 30 minutes per night. “We’re very careful about the kind of homework assignments we give to students.

In his comprehensive reviews of over 180 research studies on homework, Harris Cooper (1989, 2006) found that an optimal amount of homework for high school seniors was 120 minutes per night. Seniors ...

Homework: Election Night Party For this week's assignment, host Andrea Seabrook and our listeners give you ideas for planning a gaffe-free election night party. Next week, we'd like to hear your ...

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"I find it sad that I get more work done at 11 or 12:30 at night because that is when everyone else is asleep," said Chris Blandy, 18, a senior at Cherry Hill High School West.

In what’s often referred to as the “homework gap,” the unequal access to digital devices and high-speed internet prevents 17 percent of teens from completing their homework assignments ...

High school teachers interviewed said they assign an average of 3.5 hours worth of homework a week. For students who study five days a week, that’s 42 minutes a day per class, or 3.5 hours a day ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — As kids get back to the swing of things in school, it's normal for high school students to get about an hour of homework every night -with different assignments in each class.