Parenting & Education

Children could benefit from personalized lessons based on brain scans.

The growth pattern of long-range connections in the bra...

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

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

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

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...