Romanticizing Scandinavians’ way of life is becoming a popular pastime. Sweden has the best parental leave policy in the world. Finland’s education system magically mixes low pressure and high achievement. And the Danes, the happiest people in the world, have hygge.
Boris Johnson, Britain’s foreign minister, has once again shown his capacity for completely contradicting himself without shame or embarrassment.
Seven Rhode Island universities, including Brown and Rhode Island College, will move to open-license textbooks in a bid to save students $5 million over the next five years, the governor announced Tuesday (Sept. 27).
Mojo is a monster with a problem. He used to like school, but then math got hard, and Mojo decided he was not smart enough. School became less fun, and Mojo wanted to make a run for it.
Keeping up with girls’ friendships can be confusing at times. Friends can become outcasts at the toss of a bracelet. But if tween and teen girls call them ”frenemies,” psychologists have a more sophisticated term: “relational aggression.”
There is little in this universe I love more than the end of my kids’ days. No matter how frazzled I am, or what superhuman efforts they put up to resist bedtime, snuggling up with them tucked in and a pile of books beside us is the tonic we need to end our days.
Considerable research shows that well-designed early childhood programs can help children, particularly those who are disadvantaged, build social, emotional and academic skills that can help them as students and in life.
Former US president George H.W. Bush has said he’ll cast his November vote for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, according to Politico. If he does, Bush will join several other high-profile GOP defections this year.
The transition from elementary school at about age 11, to middle school, is notoriously hard, and researchers have documented that a lot of kids take a hit academically from which they don’t recover for years.
A new report from the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development found that the gender pay gap for well-educated American women is worse than that of every other OECD country except Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Israel and the Slovak Republic.
In 2015, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) gave 15-year-old students in every country the same math and science test. Singapore’s teens places first. The country is so good at teaching math that its methods are now being adopted everywhere from Canada and the US to Israel and the UK.
In the annals of great parenting moments, the one where the kids clamber onto the couch by themselves with their very own longish-book is an awesome one. They’ve mastered the de-coding, they’ve got the sounds, and they can follow a simple plot. Time to kick back and watch them lose themselves in literature, right?
The internet is awash in advice on how to make the school year ahead better for students and parents.
From a young age, we ask children to start making their life plans. What are you going to be when you grow up? What will you do with you life?
Crime rates have been dropping steadily for 20 years in most American cities. But you wouldn’t know it to look at the way Americans raise their kids.
It’s a well-worn trope that women are paid less than men because they aren’t as aggressive in asking for raises. They are more concerned with fitting in, goes the argument, and they don’t want to be perceived as overly demanding. In short, it’s women that are the problem, not their bosses.
Sara Hess knows the highs and lows of competitive sports. She played on the historic 1999 women’s world cup team (as Sara Whalen), which defeated China and put women’s soccer on the map. She went to the Olympics the next year, but stayed on the bench as the team won a silver medal. When she returned to the US to play professionally, two injuries led to seven surgeries and one infection which nearly killed her. Quitting was devastating.
Anyone who has had a baby, is having a baby, or has thought about having a baby, knows that coming up with a name is a supremely fraught process.
Teen births in the US fell 57% between 1991 and 2013. While researchers can’t pinpoint the exact cause of that development, many believe that improved information, better access to birth control, and less sex among teens have contributed.
Once upon a time, summer vacation was a time for American high schoolers to relax, spend time with friends and family, or get a summer job to make some money.
Motherhood doesn’t pay, at least in terms of wages.
The debate over whether homework helps kids learn or robs them of a proper childhood is as heated as ever, as shown by the outpouring of attention for one teacher’s decision to ban take-home assignments.
Empathy, or the ability to read another person’s emotions, is a critical life skill. Many fear children are losing it—and that they’ll be less happy as adults as a result.
If watching your four-year-old score a goal ignites an irrepressible inner thrill in you, imagine the feeling of being the parent of one of those beaming Olympic medal winners up on the podium. It poses an obvious question: would you want your child to be an Olympian?
