School & Teaching

Early school success seems to depend largely on children entering school ready to learn, and many policy initiatives have highli...

Children who arrive at school knowing letters and numbers do better

Children who start kindergarten with a basic grasp of numb...

An educational study unprecedented in scope finds that children who enter kindergarten with elementary mathematics and reading s...

Some brain learning theories used in Scottish schools are ‘mumbo-jumbo’, an expert claims

One of the world’s foremost neurosci...

Heredity versus environment, nature versus nurture: the argument over what best explains intelligence has been going strong for...

It's that anxious time again, the start of a new school year. But when Alexandria elementary schools resume classes after Labor...