School & Teaching

A new study confirms what parents have long suspected: Adolescence can do a number on kids’ brains. Researchers have found that...

Occupy Wall Street is shining a useful spotlight on one of America’s central challenges, the inequality that leaves the richest...

China’s education performance – at least in cities such as Shanghai and Hong Kong – seems to be as spectacular as the country’s ...

Recently, yet another parent discussed with me the possibility of medicating her child for ADHD. As an educator, I continually f...

Take two kids, one from a low-income family, the other middle class. Let them run around and do little-kid things in their respe...

Sam Wang is an associate professor of molecular biology and neuroscience at Princeton. Sandra Aamodt is a former editor in chief...