Back to School 2014

Our kids spend a third of their day in school, but the work doesn't stop there. Perhaps the most dreaded part of back-to-school, for both students and their parents, is the return of homework.

It's back to school for most New Jersey children this week, and homework isn't the only thing they will be bringing home with them. Now, is also a time when germs run rampant through the classrooms causing many students to come down with what has become known as the "back-to-school plague."

CHICAGO (AP) -- Pediatricians have a new prescription for schools: later start times for teens.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- College students from West Africa may be subject to extra health checks when they arrive to study in the United States as administrators try to insulate campuses from the worst Ebola outbreak in history.

Young people aren't the only ones who get back-to-school blues. Pooches used to months of constant playtime can get upset when their best buddies disappear with the dog days of summer.