“Dr. Laura: How will they know right from wrong when they are never taught something will happen when they do wrong?" In a recent post, we addressed the fact that punishment doesn't actually teach ...

Daniel Willingham is a cognitive scientist, by which I mean, he is an academic researcher who extracts information from psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Not all children learn to read in the same way, but schools tend to adopt a single approach to literacy. luckyvector/iStock via ...

Kids can learn languages really easily, which makes a lot of adults wonder why it is so hard for them to do the same thing when they are older. Kids can figure out how to say words and understand the ...

The attachments we learned from our mother and father, or our first primary caregivers, from birth through our mid-grade school age, is our attachment period; it is what molds us into who we become in ...

Politicians used to care how much students learn. Now, to find a defense of educational excellence, we have to look beyond politics. Credit...Photo illustration by Alex Merto Supported by By Dana ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Five years after the pandemic forced children into remote instruction, two-thirds of U.S. fourth graders still cannot read at grade level. Reading scores lag 2 percentage points ...