It looked like an ordinary math question. Students were asked to speculate on the price of corn and to recommend…
Education has become a battleground. So says Stephen Bates in his book, titled Battleground. It tells the story of a…
Picture books about Babar, the elephant king, are being pulled from the shelves. The stories have been judged dangerous for…
A few years ago a researcher compared the math performance of 24,000 13-year-olds from the United States and five other…
The noted columnist Robert J. Samuelson calls fatherhood “without doubt the most terrifying and fulfilling part of my life.” His…
Nancy Bray Cardozo, writing in Audubon Magazine, tells the story of her six-year-old girl nestling down for her first night…
“They said they were looking for [genital] warts, but on a sixth-grader?” That was the uncomprehending response by the mother…
With our youth being bombarded by all kinds of harmful influences, you’d think reading children’s nature books would be a…
Little Michael has four parents: His mothers are two lesbian lovers, one of whom conceived Michael through artificial insemination, and…
“Everybody at school calls me shrimp,” complained 11-year-old Marco. “I feel like a loser.” Just what is Marco’s problem? He’s…
