Young children are becoming digital addicts, hooked on fast-paced scrolling, swiping and mini-rewards designed into platforms such as...

Anxious about their children's anxiety, parents are going into crisis mode when their 18-year-olds face the normal challenges of college...

A New York City charter school is boosting enrollment by offering a 12-hour day, including breakfast and dinner, at no extra cost to...

I was born at the peak of the baby boom, the second of four children. (Today is my birthday.) Most of us weren't planned, but we were...

Nearly all public schools offer some type of counseling, mental health or "wellness" lessons, writes Abigail Shrier in Free Press. But...

Worried about a nationwide epidemic of absenteeism, more schools are telling parents to send slightly sick children to school, reports...

Black parents are the most likely to choose charter, selective enrollment or magnet schools in Chicago, reports Sarah Karp for WBEZ. She...

Seventy-nine percent of parents say their child is receiving mostly B's or better, and 89 percent believe their child is at or above...

"Handwringing" about grade inflation is "inflated," suggests Valerie Strauss in the Washington Post. She offers a piece by Jack Schneider...

"The race to the Ivy League starts early," writes Asia Grace in the New York Post. Affluent parents are hiring tutors for their toddlers...

Mental health doesn't mean feeling good all the time, writes psychologist Lisa Damour in The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising...

"Rosie" averaged an 83 in core classes and tested more than two months above grade level in fifth grade in 2019. She was absent three...

If only parents were involved in their children's education, teachers said, students would do so much better. If only teachers...

Texas may provide $10,400 per student for parent-directed education, if Gov. Greg Abbott can push a compromise bill through a third...

The highest-scoring school district in the country isn't a school district, reports Sarah Mervosh in the New York Times. The "Defense...

U.S. teenagers average 4.8 hours a day on social media apps such as YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and X (formerly Twitter),...

Mom wants to start "Oliver" on puberty blockers. Dad thinks "Olivia" should go through puberty before deciding whether to be male, female...

Culture explains why Asian-American students do so well in school, writes Helen Raleigh, who's Asian American, in The Federalist. It's...

Mentors, home visits, data analysis and movie visits for students and grocery gift cards for parents are among the strategies used to get...

Autism rates keep climbing -- nearly 3 percent, of all eight-year-olds in the latest estimates -- yet there's no sense of crisis, writes...