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 ...

TORONTO – While September means new teachers, old friends, and strapping on a backpack for students, it also means spending nights on homework instead of summer hobbies. But not for everyone. It’s ...

If your evenings sometimes look like a scene from a dramatic TV show, crumpled worksheets, a frustrated child threatening to run away, and you counting to ten very slowly while holding back tears, you ...