Parenting & Education

Critics of ISTEP caution that educators are teaching to the test, which is to say, they are restricting classroom instruction to...

A new web-based army of parental advisers and critics is baffling.

Shortly after the birth of our first child, my husband came...

Children who regularly participated in a Simon Says-type game designed to improve self-regulation – called the Head-Toes-Knees-S...

Joe O’Shea on the study that promotes childhood squabbles.

Parents with squabbling children should let them row to their heart...

Janet French, a recently retired pre-kindergarten teacher, understands the importance of preparing 3- to 5-year-olds for kinderg...

Beginning first graders that understand numbers, the quantities those numbers represent, and low-level arithmetic will have bett...