Child Brain Development

In his State of the Union address, President Obama called for making preschool available to every 4-year-old in America, ope...

NIH funded study identifies fundamental skills needed for math functioning in adult life.

Children who failed to acquire a bas...

At a Georgia preschool last week, President Obama sat in a tiny wooden chair and played a science game with a group of four-year...

Paul Solman: James Heckman is one of the economists of the hour — a quirky star whose work is now in the limelight. He teaches...

For the first time, Wayne State University researchers have shown brain connectivity in fetuses, a discovery that could lead to...

Every year, millions of well-intentioned American kids show up at kindergarten or first grade woefully unprepared to learn. Some...