School & Teaching

Erin Ferrantino rarely has to consult the birthday chart in her kindergarten classroom to pick out the Octobers, Novembers and D...

Sweden and the US are two countries in which increased leisure use of computers by children leads to poorer reading ability. Thi...

Nolan Bushnell once almost destroyed his family’s garage. As a youngster in Utah, he went tooling around with a liquid-fuel rock...

New brain research offers insight into the earliest causes of anxiety.

Math problems make more than a few students -and even t...

Prompted by “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” the fiercely debated book by El Cerrito High grad Amy Chua, a UC San Diego profes...

It’s more than just disliking math, according to scholars.

Math problems make more than a few students—and even teachers—sweat...