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James J. Heckman is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. He shared the ...

It sounds great. But can the president’s plan survive contact with the real world?

I said in my last post that the president w...

If you started piano lessons in grade one, or played the recorder in kindergarten, thank your parents and teachers, as researche...

Encouragement and praise can come in many forms, and some ways are better for child development than others.

Researchers at th...

Scientists are scanning the brains of 500 unborn babies using a revolutionary new imaging technology in an attempt to trace the...

The state’s new $2.75 million WaKIDS program is intended to assess the skills of children entering kindergarten to help teachers...