Boys who play video games on school days spend 30 percent less time reading, and girls spend 34 percent less time doing homework than those who do not play such games, U.S. researchers said Monday.

DENVER (CBS4)- A 10-year-old has invented an app that keeps track of reading homework. Daniel Chao likes to do typical things that a 10-year-old does: hang out with friends in the lunch room and when ...

Very few kids like homework, but some assignments are worse than others. We asked New Jersey students to tell us about the homework they can't stand, the ones that drive them nuts! I don't like math ...

Structuring reading — particularly for early readers — is highly debated among parents and teachers. Veteran educator Stephanie Freeman has watched schools become “more and more powerless” in the ...

Our daughter is six, but we suspect – as does her current teacher – that she may have some ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) traits. She has no formal diagnosis. We are writing to see ...

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. You can pose a question for a future column here. Dear Bonni, What ideas do you have for student accountability?

I pointed to the word “no” on a sign at the Botanical Gardens. My four-year-old daughter frowned and said: “Cut it out mummy!” I told myself she was too young. A year later, she was even more ...

When the school year begins Thursday at Marion County Public Schools in central Florida, the district’s 20,263 elementary school students will come to class sure of one thing: No matter what the ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The parents of a Florida second-grader said their child was withdrawn from school after they questioned an assignment in which their daughter was instructed to “send a picture of ...