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A few weeks ago, I wrote about the value of preschool and received a flurry of responses from preschool and day-care providers a...

“Hey, Phillip… do you mind if I sit here and eat with you?” I asked.

“Sure, whatever…”

“How’s school going? Are you doing we...

A new book persuasively argues that extraordinary intelligence and talent are not genetic gifts.

David Shenk’s new book, “The...

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

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...

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

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