The growing trend of encouraging educators to learn about how children's brains work can offer reassurance, but it risks teachers' autonomy and critical thinking, a new study warns.
Low-income students who received a preschool intervention focused on social-emotional development continued to benefit from it during their teen years, according to a recent study published in the journal Child Development.
Imagine your parents leave you and your siblings a share of land that's been in your family for generations. Several of your relatives already live on the land, and you'd like to do the same; but you can't get a loan to build ...
UK campaign group The Dad Shift is staging a "dad strike" on June 11, to protest the poor paternity leave available to fathers in the UK. Fathers and other parents are being asked to "picket or pickup"—to leave work and ...
Kim Tak-un was four years old when he was adopted by a Swedish family in 1974. Originally from South Korea, Tak-un had lived with his single father, a laborer who moved frequently for work. One day in the summer of 1974, ...
In Florida, a bill that bans cellphone use in elementary and middle schools, from bell to bell, recently sailed through the state Legislature.
How wealthy are you? Like most people, you would probably do some math before answering this question. You would add up the money in your bank accounts, the value of your investments and any equity in a home you own, then ...
As parents, our instinct is to protect and insulate kids in times of uncertainty. But sometimes this is impossible due to playground bullies, stress at home caused by sudden layoffs, cutthroat academics or sports—the list ...
How educators acquire and implement learnings from their students can play a critical role in environmental education, according to a new study from researchers in the Penn State Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism ...
Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope went looking for evidence of one phenomenon and found quite another.
