How much help should parents give their children with homework?  Should homework be the focus of every evening after school?  Over the Thanksgiving break I asked a young mom visiting from Illinois how things were going with her kids.  She laughed and said that she just loved spending two hours a night on homework because she had ...

I once had a student turn in a beautifully written composition that I knew was not his work.  When I talked to his mother, she told me, ''Of course, I did it.  You know he can't write.''  Parents sometimes feel that they have to help out with projects because other parents are raising the bar.  One of my friends explained to me ...