School & Teaching

The toymaker Mattel introduced the Teen Talk Barbie in 1992. Each doll could say four phrases, which were randomly selected from...

Nearly 100 readers commented on my attack on "reform" math in the Sunday Times Opinion section of April 22. More than 93 percent...

Every secondary school should put up a separate “boys’ bookshelf” packed with spy novels and action stories to encourage more bo...

Research on how junior high school students' beliefs about intelligence affect their math grades found that those who believed t...

Carol Atkinson holds a stopwatch as the second-graders in her room fish pencils from their desks, a worksheet of 25 addition pro...