“Parents in every culture at a given moment think they’re doing the optimal thing for their kids.”

Turning college into a zero-sum game hurts their chances of succeeding after graduation.

Researchers demonstrated a method for reconstructing how the brain moves from understanding a problem to solving it.

Do you entertain your kids with chess camp, art school, cooking classes, or tennis lessons during the unstructured summer months? Or perhaps all of them? There are activities and summer camps galore to fill children’s time and supply much needed childcare when kids are out of school. But psychologists and child development experts suggest that over-schedulin

The Boston Basics is a series of evidence-based parenting principles designed for children under the age of 3.

Education does not stop when recess begins.

Long before you could express yourself with words, you were giving away the signs of your adult temperament. Christian Jarrett explains how.

Our memory and our cognitive capabilities are obviously flawed. But the system generally works pretty well: In fact, we couldn't function without it.

Does your morning routine consist of checking emails, browsing Facebook, downing coffee, heading to the train while Googling one last idea, checking notifications, more coffee, and going through your work email? The very myriad of activities crammed into your morning, and the constant switching between them, is likely making you very tired. When w

We know very little about what goes into standardized tests, who really designs them and how they're scored. Take a peek into the nation's largest test-scoring facility.

Rather than creating a new generation of pleasure-readers, forcing kids to keep track of their reading time can turn it into a chore.

In the age-old fight between hard work and talent, researcher Anders Ericsson says it's no contest. Practice wins the day.

How can we best prepare children for success in their lives and livelihoods? In a new paper, Rebecca Winthrop and Eileen McGivney explain that recognizing the world’s constant evolution is key to preparing children for the rapid change in technology, increasing interconnectedness, and new forms employment.

Adults can be taught to create an environment for success.

A research finding may have implications for attaching stakes to standardized tests. It also brings up questions about motivation — for tomorrow's test and for the rest of the students' education.