Children learn language effortlessly and completely voluntarily. They learn new words miraculously fast. A teenager masters about 60,000 words of their mother tongue by the time they finish high ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) K. Dara Hill, University of Michigan-Dearborn (THE CONVERSATION) Five years after the ...

When talking about dyslexia to your son, describe it as a different learning style that comes with many strengths. Whereas ...

Recent research is shedding light on a question that has puzzled educators and parents for years: how do children learn best in an increasingly digital world? A groundbreaking study reveals that for ...

“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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...