Parents teach young children to love books by reading to them, often at bedtime. Laura and John Overdeck love math, so they started giving their kids a word problem to solve each night before tucking ...

A recent article in The Cut that described the keeping-up-with-the-Joneses anxiety that the FX/Hulu series Fleishman is in Trouble is inducing in a certain milieu of upper-middle-class parents let ...

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Middle school students are disrupting classes by shouting “6-7,” a meaningless phrase from a rap song that has ...

Small studies of high-quality after-school programs sometimes show improvements in reading or math, but many after-school programs have been a disappointment because of poorly trained teachers, weak ...

Studies show that students usually have to relearn four to six weeks of classwork at the beginning of every school year. And if there’s anything kids forget, it’s math. With your trusty iPad and a few ...

The latest results of an international exam given to teenagers ranked the USA ninth in reading and 31st in math literacy out of 79 countries and economies. America has a smaller-than-average share of ...