Why You Shouldn’t Help Your Kids with Their Homework

April 29, 2014

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Parents who get too involved in helping their children with their homework may be inadvertently hurting their kids’ academic achievement, according to researchers.

Angel Harris, a professor of sociology and African and African-American studies at Duke University, and Keith Robinson, an assistant professor of sociology at the…

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