YouTube may have more potential to encourage children to learn than you'd think.

A global analysis suggests that on average the world's tallest teenagers live in the Netherlands.

Next month will mark 50 years of television that aims to educate and unite.

"The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice" author talks about lowering the stakes to increase student outcomes.

An open letter from academics and politicians also targets Amazon, Apple and Microsoft.

When Cambodian schools closed due to Covid-19, poor internet access and a lack of minority language materials made distance learning in rural communities near impossible. But armed with a simple radio, children are rising above these obstacles to their education.

Most large sports events came to an abrupt halt during the pandemic, but one category was not only unaffected but enjoyed accelerated growth: esports. Esports is the competitive playing of video games such as League of Legends, Fortnite and Fifa Football. The audiences for the biggest titles are now enormous.

Opting out of assigned schoolwork is an opportunity to learn in different ways, professor of education says

The crayons will be wrapped in a gradient skin tone label with the color name in English, Spanish and French, and a realistic color name — such as Light Golden, Deep Almond and Medium Deep Rose.

Rowling’s latest venture is a children’s book called The Ickabog that’s been stashed away in her attic.

Google's Wing drones will begin delivering library books to kids in Christiansburg, Virginia, where it has been testing the service for meals and other items.

"I’ve given my kids the dad they deserve."

We live in stories, not statistics’ is a quote by Kathleen Gilbert that I am often reminded of. At a personal level, stories have been instrumental throughout my career. In the early 80s when I started work as a nursery nurse, story time with the children was always a highlight of the day.

Scientists have long studied play to gain insights into the developing human mind.

Children's privacy laws in the US prohibit apps like TikTok from collecting personal information of children under 13 without parental consent.

No one can remember the first years of their life. A study suggests possible reasons.

The mood in which a baby is in when it learns new information plays a key role in their ability to recall information.

A new study “A prefrontal-paraventricular thalamus circuit requires juvenile social experience to regulate adult sociability in mice” suggests that social isolation in childhood has a harmful impact on adult brain functioning and more specifically, in an area of the brain that’s responsible for regulating social behavior. In addition to bringing attention to the impact that today’s isolated world might have on children in their adulthood...

A new report examining nearly 28 million social media posts tied to 114 schools finds higher rates of depression and stress following active shooter drills.

“He knows that the dog has the same condition as he does," said the boy's mother, Ashley Boyers. "He understands.”