Child Brain Development

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

David Shenk’s new book, “The...

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...

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...