Parenting & Education

James Heckman is one of the nation’s top economists studying human development. Thirteen years ago, he shared the Nobel for eco...

Nearly one in five high school age boys in the United States and 11 percent of school-age children over all have received a medi...

Preschool might seem like nothing more than child’s play — a riot of high-spirited kids engaged in finger painting, blockbuildin...

When Philip Wiederspan began teaching first-grade at age 25, he was the only male, except for the gym teacher. His former New Je...

We know a lot about how babies learn to talk, and youngsters learn to read. Now scientists are unraveling the earliest building...

Canadian parents spend more time reading, telling stories, singing songs, drawing, and teaching new words and letters to their p...