How we see the world and interact with each other, especially whether we create welcoming environments of acceptance, does not always come naturally. Tim Shriver, chair of the Special Olympics, and ...

Post-pandemic schools are still feeling the aftershocks — socially, emotionally, and politically — say educators Mathew Portell and Tyisha Noise, co-authors of Harvard Education Press title, Reducing ...

Play is an important part in any child’s life. But games and play are much more than just keeping a child occupied: The act of play is an essential part of a child’s overall development. Playful ...

U.S. surgeon general Vivek Murthy placed a spotlight on America’s problem with loneliness when he declared the issue an epidemic in the spring of 2023. Murthy explained, in a letter that introduced an ...

The explosion of artificial intelligence comes with many benefits and challenges for children interacting with artificial intelligence, especially in educational and social contexts. “The big question ...

A new report details what teens think parents and teachers should know about how they use, or don’t use, generative artificial intelligence ...

Sam Noel, a senior at Melrose High School in Massachusetts, didn’t sleep well the night before his SAT last spring. “I was nervous,” he says, not just about taking the college entrance exam but also ...

While most schools in the United States do not report using corporal punishment — the use of pain as punishment — it still impacts tens of thousands of students annually, particularly in states where ...

Higher education is one of the few industries that has changed little in the past few decades. Visiting Professor Brian Rosenberg believes there is an urgent need to transform higher education but too ...

“We are no longer seeing a parent raising a concern about their student reading a book, but advocacy groups demanding broader censorship of topics they don’t believe should be in schools or where they ...

What does it mean to raise a grateful child? Developmental scientist and psychologist Andrea Hussong from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill says it’s a lot more than teaching your child ...

The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) such as ChatGPT and other large language models (LLM) has brought a flurry of headlines and concerns about its impact across a wide array of ...