Alright, I'll admit it off the bat, sometimes I have trouble figuring out what my daughter (first grade) is supposed to do in her Common Core homework. However, my first assumption is usually that ...

Homework has long been a tradition for elementary school students after spending the day at school. But Elmhurst Unit District 205 is in its second year for which district policy recommends that ...

Kindergarten has taken some getting used to for Walker Sheppard, who didn’t attend preschool or day care. Besides all the new rules to remember, there’s a new nightly routine: homework. “We spend ...

Jeannie Kuhner of Deer Park has a PhD, so she figured helping her son, Christian, 5, do his kindergarten math homework would be a slam dunk. “But I’m floored by some of the questions,” she says. Take ...