A typical preschool curriculum covers concepts like colors, shapes, and letters, plus social and school-readiness skills.

If your kids complain that they are bored at school, one way to make learning more fun is to try out edutainment.

Years ago, preschool generally was seen as an opportunity to allow young children to play and socialize in a safe setting. Asking to see a preschool’s curriculum likely would have been met with a ...

Daniel Willingham is a cognitive scientist, by which I mean, he is an academic researcher who extracts information from psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, and ...

Here's why most adults aren't "smarter than an 8th grader" when it comes to visual perceptual learning (VPL). Neuroscientists at Brown University recently discovered that school-aged children ...

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I sat around a table with a group of fourth graders learning to be mentors for younger students, and a girl looked at me and said, “Now whenever I am upset, I have Buddy and Snuggles in my head.” ...

From hearing lullabies to the sing-song lilt of a parent’s voice, babies form strong connections with their caregivers through sound and song. Think about the way we instinctively bounce or rock fussy ...

New research clarifies how children can learn so much more efficiently than adults can. GABA is the abbreviation for the neurotransmitter γ-aminobutyric acid. In the study, published in the journal ...

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