Parenting & Education

JeMira Nichols entered kindergarten in this sleepy Delta town way ahead of her classmates. She knew colors, letters and numbers....

Policy makers who want to simultaneously boost high school graduation rates and reverse health epidemics from diabetes to obesit...

At a preschool in Miami, children under 5 are studying the anatomy of pineapples through science, reading stories in smart table...

At first sight the hi-tech world of the Diamond Light Source may not seem a hotbed of reading.

But scientists and workers at t...

For years, nothing seemed capable of turning around New Dorp High School’s dismal performance—not firing bad teachers, not flash...

This is the second installment in a three-part Harvard Medical School series on childhood obesity.

With childhood obesity now...