Many parents know that loud noise can hurt a child's hearing. Very loud sounds — from fireworks or firearms, for example — can cause immediate damage. Using personal listening devices for music, ...

With a teacher in tow and our pod of families set, which I wrote about in my previous piece around the operations of our homeschool setup, the next set of questions we tackled in August and September ...

Montessori parenting embraces a child-centred approach that stems from Dr. Maria Montessori’s educational philosophy developed in the early 1900s. This parenting style respects children as capable ...

The Child Learning Center at the University of Colorado Boulder is not a typical preschool classroom. It has a special kind of magic, clinical supervisor Katie Miller said. Some children are just ...

Children lost out on about one-third of what they usually would have learned. School-aged children faced significant learning loss during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, data shows. The ...

Maly, a schoolgirl in southern Laos, learns how to conserve the Mekong River and her village's traditional fishing livelihoods through WWF's "Green School" activities, part of the HSBC Water Programme ...

As teachers and students enter the third year of the pandemic, we face unprecedented levels of grief in the learning environment. An estimated 1.5 million children worldwide lost a caregiver to ...

About 90 percent of children aged between 36 months and 59 months in Saudi Arabia live in a positive, stimulating home learning environment, with rates of 90.1 percent among girls and 89.8 percent ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American When DeepMind’s AlphaGo program defeated its ...