High school students eager to stand out in the college application process often participate in a litany of extracurricular activities hoping to bolster their chances of admission to a selective ...

You shouldn’t have to go into debt for your kids’ extracurriculars. At the same time, no parent wants to deny their child’s dream of pursuing soccer, hip-hop, karate—after all, who doesn’t want an ...

While some ambitious high school students may load up on extracurricular activities to help them get into college, a new study suggests they may be trying too hard. Researchers at The Ohio State ...

How will you spend your year-end bonus? On a fancy new bag or a luxury trip? Well, most Chinese parents would say it depends on how their children perform in the final exam. If their kids' academic ...

When deciding what parenting topic to write about this week, I asked several fellow moms what issues they were interested in. The overwhelming response: extracurricular activities — specifically, how ...

Marginal and disaffected students are those most likely to opt out of extracurricular activities if participation requires an intrusive, potentially humiliating drug test. The line of questioning ...