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Preschool children with relatively poor language skills improve more if they are placed in classrooms with high-achieving studen...

Editor’s note: Alison Gopnik is a professor of psychology and philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley. Her boo...

A researcher in Sweden has found that “**two generations of universal daycare have left their children less educated, and more...

A new study confirms what parents have long suspected: Adolescence can do a number on kids’ brains. Researchers have found that...

Almost one-in-five boys are unable to write their own name after a year of school, figures show, as they fall behind girls at an...

Occupy Wall Street is shining a useful spotlight on one of America’s central challenges, the inequality that leaves the richest...