Parenting & Education

Ryuta Kawashima, the scientist behind the smash-hit “brain training” games on Nintendo DS portable consoles, turned down the cha...

For decades, scientists and parents explored how much of children’s chances for success were determined by their nature (the gen...

More than 42,000 Year 12 students in Queensland have just been notified of their university course offer for 2008.

A teacher f...

Childhood obesity is a growing epidemic, and as many as 1 in 5 children are overweight. Many factors affect children’s weight, i...

Q: My 15-month-old boy rams his little pushcart into our dog. He thinks it’s a game — a very funny one, apparently. His pediatr...

Looking back over the past 12 months, it is clear that 2007 was a watershed year for education. Much of what has been argued on...