Parenting & Education

Hint: Don't tell your kids that they are. More than three decades of research shows that a focus on effort—not on intelligence o...

When parents call to sign up their teenagers for one of her preparatory courses for college-entry exams, local testing guru Mart...

You have to wonder why, when the U.S. Census reports that the single child family is the fastest growing family unit, people tel...

When he was in the throes of his worst tantrums, Daniel Fletcher would rip wallpaper off the walls at home and hit and kick anyo...

Early school success seems to depend largely on children entering school ready to learn, and many policy initiatives have highli...

Children who arrive at school knowing letters and numbers do better

Children who start kindergarten with a basic grasp of numb...