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To the editors of *Scientific American***:**

Your Perspectives column in the March 2010issue should be required reading for...

The sand-and-water table in Barry Hoff’s classroom in the Southampton Head Start program on New York’s Long Island, used to be f...

Good science education at the earliest grades is supremely important,but in most classrooms it gets short shrift. **Studies **h...

We live in a multilingual world. It is not uncommon to walk down the
street in any U.S. city and hear several different languag...

Couples in low-conflict but unhappy marriages often are
well advised to try to keep the family together.

During tough times i...

More than one in ten children are starting school without the social skills they need to benefit from education, according to a ...