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For years, nothing seemed capable of turning around New Dorp High School’s dismal performance—not firing bad teachers, not flash...

This is the second installment in a three-part Harvard Medical School series on childhood obesity.

With childhood obesity now...

Many high-achieving students experience math anxiety at a young age — a problem that can follow them throughout their lives, new...

Supernanny’s ‘naughty step’ technique for disciplining children could actually lower their self-esteem, a leading child psycholo...

In a classroom awash with morning sunlight, 25 kindergartners at Marcy Open School in Minneapolis recently worked on a self-port...

Motherhood begins as a tempestuously physical experience but quickly becomes a political one. Once a woman’s pregnancy goes publ...