Raising a bilingual child in the United States requires much deliberate effort, since English surrounds nearly every ...

Howard Gardner has been a proponent of what he has named "multiple intelligences." Schoolwork typically emphasizes linguistic (of a certain kind) and logico-mathematical skills, developed through ...

At every pediatrician appointment for the last several years, I’ve been asked about how much “screen time” my kids are getting. I’m reminded by the doctor that the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) ...

All children can learn the basic curriculum, but only if given equal opportunity to do so. Critics of public education have become extremely good fishermen. In the river called accountability, they ...

The brains of humans understand the world by recognizing patterns. Patterns as simple as a line drawing to complex math/arithmetic figures. The brain processes patterns in language, music, quilting, ...

More than one‐third of the world's population uses a writing system that includes both uppercase and lowercase letter forms.

On May 2, 2025, at the age of 30, the grant that funded much of PBS KIDS’ content—the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) (now defunct, too) and Public Broadcasting Service’s (PBS) Ready to ...

A Manitou Springs farm and nonprofit is working to secure permanent protection for its land through a conservation easement, ...

A team led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine has used an AI-based approach to uncover underlying patterns among the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, termed social ...