Early Learning

Sweden and the US are two countries in which increased leisure use of computers by children leads to poorer reading ability. Thi...

New brain research offers insight into the earliest causes of anxiety.

Math problems make more than a few students -and even t...

Prompted by “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” the fiercely debated book by El Cerrito High grad Amy Chua, a UC San Diego profes...

It’s more than just disliking math, according to scholars.

Math problems make more than a few students—and even teachers—sweat...

On command, Eze Schupfer reads aloud the numbers on a worksheet in front of her: “42, 43, 12, 13.” Then she begins to trace them...

When it comes to giving your child a head start, new research suggests it’s never too soon.

Scientists at the University of Or...