Child Brain Development

Some children come to school knowing their alphabet. They can count to 10, write their name, tell you their favourite book and a...

Understanding numbers, the quantities those numbers represent, and low-level arithmetic by the end of first grade are key to bet...

The brain’s real super-food may be learning new languages.

On a sweltering August morning, in a classroom overlooking New York...

“Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.”
–Shakespeare’s Othello, I.iii

Admittedly, the messenger...

“I just don’t have the energy at the end of the work day to crack the books with my kid. Isn’t that what we pay teachers to do?

Should a young child getting ready for school be placed in kindergarten, or a developmental kindergarten program?

It’s a quest...