Early Learning

Australia is planning to restrict TV for toddlers, because of adverse effects on the brain. How scared should we be?

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Here’s one more take on Dr. Walter Mischel’s famous marshmallow study, which I analyzed last Friday. If you recall, one third of...

Excellence is grown, not born, a New York Times best-selling author told members of the Evanston school community on Friday. 

I recently stopped to congratulate a young mother pushing her toddler in a stroller. The woman had been talking to her barely v...

My daugther's favourite nursery rhyme was Humpty Dumpty. As a baby, she'd grin and gurgle to keep me singing; later she'd pull m...

I mentioned in a recent column about parenting and success of low-income students that if we want to delve into the topic we nee...