Children everywhere start out similar, but culture shapes how sharing, honesty, and cooperation grow over time.

How do children learn to cooperate with others? A new cross-cultural study suggests that the answer depends less on universal ...

On Feb. 11, she will moderate an event exploring what it means to grow up in the AI age. The event, part of her Co-Opting AI ...

Kids are learning machines…but how do they do it? Cognitive scientist Elizabeth Bonawitz is helping us understand how ...

Unlike kids in the United States, hunter-gatherer children in the Congo Basin have often learned how to hunt, identify edible plants and care for babies by the tender age of six or seven. This rapid ...

Kids do listen to their parents from time to time, especially when they aren't supposed to. Here's what research says about ...

Yuko Goto Butler, director of the Graduate School of Education's Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Program, has long fielded requests from her students for a wide-ranging book of ...

What's the best way for children to learn arithmetic—memorizing number values and multiplication tables, or studying math at a deeper, conceptual level? Educators have long debated the merits of these ...

“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 ...

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Parents think their children are more engaged with school and enjoy their time there much more than they actually do, a gap in understanding that could signal that both parents and schools are missing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nearly 22 percent of Americans speak a language other than English at home; many of them are English and Spanish speakers from ...