How Play Wires Kids’ Brains For Social and Academic Success
Children learn their most important lessons on the playground, not in the classroom, researchers say.
Doctors Tell Us How Hiking Can Change Our Brains
Learn what doctors and scientists are saying about hiking and ecotherapy, and why they're beneficial for our mental health.
How to Help Your Child Achieve Academic Success
A child’s success in school depends on many things, but one the most paramount influences of a student's academic success is how involved their guardians are.
How to set up your adolescent up for academic success
Puberty in the Brain When I was young, my family moved a lot. By the time I was in eighth grade, I had attended five different schools. You would think I would have been used to moving around, but I vividly remember driving to school in eighth grade and holding back tears due to nerves …
6 Secrets Every Parent (and School) Should Know About Academic Success
You would do anything to insure your children's academic success, right? Helping with homework, meeting with teachers, arranging for tutors -- whatever i...
Why one-on-one tutoring is essential to your child’s academic success
Similar to most professionals, teachers find themselves in the field because they have a passion for what they do, helping people to learn. But just as a farmer can’t grow crops solely with the see…
How To Wire Your Brain For Happiness
The secret to lasting happiness might be neatly summed up in a cheesy neuroscience joke: "The neurons that fire together, wire together."<br>"It’s a cla...
How Our Brains Decide When to Trust
25 signs you’re a police officer's kid
If you’re a first-generation police officer, there are some things you should know about what it’s like to be your kid
How Important Is Student Happiness to Academic Success?
Of all the influences on your child’s academic success, student happiness is perhaps one of the most often overlooked.
Is Handwriting a Predictor of Academic Success?
For decades, learning how to write in cursive served as a rite of passage for schoolchildren.
10 things you didn't know about extreme poverty
Building Cognitive Skills for Academic Success
Building Cognitive Skills for Academic Success - A New Report Tells Us Why and How, released by the New America Foundation
How Our Brains Trick Us Into Choosing Instant Gratification Over Long-term Goals
Distractions and emotions can lead us away from where we want to go.
How to Raise Happy Kids: 7 Essential Strategies
What would bring true happiness to your household? A winning lottery ticket? A vacation home on a faraway beach?
How the New Preschool Is Crushing Kids
Today’s young children are working more, but they’re learning less.
The real reason why poor kids perform worse in school
Should Kids Have Cell Phones?
Do cell phones make kids safer — or more vulnerable? Most parents get kids phones because they seem like a way to keep children safe and connected. After all, with a cell phone, your child can contact you whenever he needs you. Also, you should be able to reach your child (assuming, of course, that she hasn’t lost the cell phone, buried it in a backpack, lent it to a friend, forgotten to turn the ringer on, or decided to ignore it when…
More than a thousand genes that affect academic success have been identified
New scores 'as significant as household income in predicting educational outcomes'
Why Drake's Diss About Kid Cudi's Mental Health Is So Disappointing
How Fairness Makes Our Brains Tingle
