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How to Close the Education Gap Between Rich and Poor Children

– Many parents, especially in disadvantaged areas, are unaware of the vital importance of play and verbal interaction with young...

Poorer Reading Skills Following Changed Computer Habits of Children

Sweden and the US are two countries in which increased leisure use of computers by children leads to poorer reading ability. Thi...

Want Kids to Win the Future? Turn Them into Makers — and Sci-Fi Fans

Nolan Bushnell once almost destroyed his family’s garage. As a youngster in Utah, he went tooling around with a liquid-fuel rock...

Parenting the Stone Age Way: Natural Parenting

Imagine what parenting must have been like during the dawn of civilization.

Women gave birth in their caves, surrounded by fam...

The Problem with Math

New brain research offers insight into the earliest causes of anxiety.

Math problems make more than a few students -and even t...

Asian Students Study Twice as Much, Says Study Sparked by “Tiger Mom” Book

Prompted by “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” the fiercely debated book by El Cerrito High grad Amy Chua, a UC San Diego profes...

Fast-Tracking to Kindergarten?

On command, Eze Schupfer reads aloud the numbers on a worksheet in front of her: “42, 43, 12, 13.” Then she begins to trace them...

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