Parenting & Education

American education is on a shaky foundation when students believe they are brilliant even though they have major deficiencies in...

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...