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Many explanations for the gender gap in math skills don’t hold up, suggests new research on math skills and gender in 86 countri...

Editor’s note: Annie Murphy Paul is the author of “Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives.” Sh...

Science has now confirmed what you’ve suspected all along – your parents did have a favourite child.

In front of me I have two...

Helen J. Neville, the director of the Brain Development Lab and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Orego...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a young woman in possession of a new baby must be in severe, dire need of parenting ...

Educators walk a tightrope between academics and young children’s developmental needs.

Although the common-core standards are...