Parenting & Education

Most parents are eager for the child to start talking, until they won’t stop and then a minutes silence feels like a true blessi...

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

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...