Parenting & Education

Our kids are growing up so fast these days. This seems especially obvious in girls, whose play often gives way to talk of boyfri...

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

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

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...