School & Teaching

The brain’s real super-food may be learning new languages.

On a sweltering August morning, in a classroom overlooking New York...

Should a young child getting ready for school be placed in kindergarten, or a developmental kindergarten program?

It’s a quest...

“I just don’t have the energy at the end of the work day to crack the books with my kid. Isn’t that what we pay teachers to do?

The Flynn effect has always been tinged with mystery. First popularized by the political scientist James Flynn, the effect refer...

Most people know how to count, but the way we master this ability remains something of a puzzle. Numerals were invented only aro...

While summer is a time for slowing down, it shouldn’t be a time for children to completely shut down.

Without some sort of lea...