A little boy named Edward Immaunel Cortez is taking a stand against homework, once and for all. In a now-viral "essay" that's making its way around the Twittersphere, he declared that he wasn't doing ...

If you’ve ever wondered exactly how many pictures of dolls there are in the American Girl catalogue, which magically arrives at our home addressed to our 6-year-old as if she had her own Visa card, I ...

Homework: the nightly battlefield where parents and kids clash over math problems, spelling lists and life’s little injustices. But one Arizona mom is tossing the rulebook — and a few answers — right ...

CLEVELAND — Now that kids are back to school, it's time for the crazy fall schedule juggle. It can be tough going from the lazy days of summer, to the hectic routine of school, homework, practices and ...

It's hard to get kids excited about things they don't want to do, like going to sleep, eating their veggies, and, yes, doing their homework. While some children are natural overachievers who enjoy ...

Acacia School in Thousand Oaks is part of a small but growing movement to change how kids do homework, at least in elementary school. Some schools are getting rid of graded homework altogether. Others ...

When I toured a public elementary school last spring, one question in particular seemed to make the principal squirm. Do the kindergartners get homework, I asked? Yes, he replied, explaining that it ...

On a recent weekday night, Ben is holed up in his Bushwick, Brooklyn, apartment doing homework — reading “A Separate Peace” for an eighth grade “reaction paper.” And to pay his rent. Ben is 27 and ...

Some schools are eliminating homework, citing research showing it doesn’t do much to boost achievement. But maybe teachers just need to assign a different kind of homework. In 2016, a second-grade ...

Calvin and Hobbesis a wildly popular comic strip about a six-year-old boy and his best friend, a stuffed tiger. Naturally, it makes complete sense that many comics in the series revolve around school ...

The dad trained the dog to do the trick after he caught his daughter playing with her smartphone instead of studying Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...