Q: Why are teachers giving so much homework? My daughter who is in ninth grade spends up to five hours a night on her school work. Sometimes she can’t get to bed until late, and then is tired ...

Q: Why are teachers giving so much homework? My daughter who is in ninth grade spends up to five hours a night on her school work. Sometimes she can’t get to bed until late, and then is tired ...

Homework guidelines are 15 minutes for first grade and an additional 10 minutes for each grade after that, which would mean the recommended amount of homework for a ninth-grader is 95 minutes.

It states that no formal homework should be assigned to children from kindergarten to Grade 3, and students in Grades 4 to 7 should devote no more than 30 minutes a day to homework.

For Central High School student Drew Brooks, eighth grade was a manageable year. Then he entered ninth grade and his academic life changed, he said. "In eighth grade, I really didn't study at all ...

Ninth grade- grades sets the foundation for the rest of your high school career. It’s hard to recover from a bad academic freshman year. — Achievement Matters (@AchieveMatters1) November 9, 2017 ...