A tribal school in Maharashtra combats water scarcity to prevent migration while providing quality education and vocational ...

In many cases, parents or school administrators push back against a child’s deserved bad grades or their need to repeat a year. That’s often because of misplaced concerns for the child’s self-esteem, ...

Being book smart is not the same as being street smart. Just because someone has a pile of degrees doesn’t mean that they ...

As Thanksgiving approaches, our thoughts turn to family, food, fun, and memory-making. It can be exciting for young children as well as overwhelming, because routines may change, more people may be in ...

To do the method, begin by writing the two numbers you want to multiply at the top of two columns. In the left column, you ...

We’ve created a generation — parents and children alike — paralyzed by numerators without denominators. A single alarming number, stripped of all context, deployed to trigger fear and ...

"Counting numbers" aren't generally used as names, says baby name expert Laura Wattenberg. In fact, she would group the name ...

Purdue basketball is putting up impressive statistics. In schools, those stats are being used to expand students' math skills ...

Figuring out what works, and what doesn’t work, is now the subject of an Australia-first $8.3m study aimed at guiding efforts to combat the issue that impacts one in five women and one in 16 men in ...

Research shows kids' financial habits are largely developed by age 7, so it's critical to teach them to be smart about money early on. A savings account can help your young one understand the value of ...

In this week's The Contenders, Swift sees her first real challenge at the top of the albums chart since her initial 'Showgirl' release. By Andrew Unterberger The Contenders is a midweek column that ...

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