For many students, balancing extracurricular activities with the demands of schoolwork can be a challenging task. While participating in these activities can provide numerous benefits, including ...

So your child wants to sign up for dance class or karate lessons? Or maybe he or she wants to learn to play the piano. But given that lessons could lead to the purchase of a piano, you may be tempted ...

From soccer and gymnastics to competitive dance, the cost of extracurricular activities has seen a marked increase in recent ...

Note: Jonathan Plucker, the Raymond Neag Professor of Education at the University of Connecticut, is guest posting this week. He can be found on Twitter at @JonathanPlucker. My thoughts today are ...

The growing demand for children to get involved in organized activities outside of school is placing unprecedented strain upon families. A new study, published in Taylor & Francis journal Sport, ...

It doesn't take long for gaps to appear between children who participate in extracurricular activities and kids who don't, a new study found. White kindergarten children were 2.6 times more likely ...

Rep. Shomari Figures, D-Ala, has introduced legislation intended to help reduce financial barriers for families to afford extracurricular activities for their children. The measure, dubbed the ...