One eighth-grader told me that when he was in sixth grade, he had so much homework he couldn’t participate in the sports or music classes he wanted to. Cooper points out, however, that homework ...

Like many parents, they are trying to limit the time the boys spend staring at computer screens ... required schoolwork and homework on computers after second grade. And the annual state tests ...

The amount of homework young people are given varies a lot from school to school and from grade to grade. In some schools and grades, children have no homework at all. In others, they may have 18 ...