The fifth-graders were completely absorbed in their game. Snatches of conversation were heard here and there, mingling with ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. Walk into almost any school in California, and you’ll notice conversations happening in several languages. This is one of the state’s ...

In Christina Gomez’s kindergarten classroom at Mt. View Elementary, in a neighborhood of Nashville, Tenn., students took turns summarizing what they’d just read about the four seasons and farm animals ...

An earlier study had raised doubts about the effectiveness of learning English in the first grade. Now, researchers have observed that it improves language performance over an extended period of time.

It's not easy to "lecture" these lessons into kids (and sometimes they'll have to learn the hard way, through mistakes and hindsight), but let's build a list of the best things we can teach kids, ...

The first large-scale, longitudinal study adapted into the regular school curriculum finds that structured music lessons significantly enhance children's cognitive abilities -- including ...