{"id":36043,"date":"2012-12-05T16:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_juggle_sue_shellenbarger-is_homework_too_hard_for_todays_parents\/"},"modified":"2012-12-05T16:00:48","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T16:00:48","slug":"the_juggle_sue_shellenbarger-is_homework_too_hard_for_todays_parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36043","title":{"rendered":"(The Juggle) Sue Shellenbarger&#8211;Is Homework Too Hard For Today\u2019s Parents?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing debate over homework focuses mostly on kids\u2019 mounting workloads , and some schools\u2019 efforts to curtail them.<\/p>\n<p>A growing number of parents are struggling with another homework trend that threatens to sink their juggle \u201d\u201c an increase in extremely complicated homework projects, from neighborhood field trips to do research, to expansive dioramas or multimedia presentations to report on what students have learned, according to parents I interviewed for last Wednesday\u2019s \u201cWork &#038; Family\u201d\u009d column on homework.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/juggle\/2012\/12\/04\/is-homework-too-hard-for-todays-parents\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing debate over homework focuses mostly on kids\u2019 mounting workloads , and some schools\u2019 efforts to curtail them. A growing number of parents are struggling with another homework trend that threatens to sink their juggle \u201d\u201c an increase in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36043\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,101,149,111,597,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-children","category-economy","category-education","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-marriage-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}