Girls from lower-income families all want to be nurses, the community college dean told me. Few make it. They fail the science and math...

“The Longer Students Were Out of School, the Less They Learned,” concludes Harry Anthony Patrinos, an education economist for the World...

Worried about the teen mental health crisis, nine states and a number of major cities are considering mandating later start times for...

Not long ago, teen-age boys dreamed of buying a car and "roaring away from school during lunch period, with a girl riding shotgun, on our...

The value of masking during the pandemic was "approximately zero," according to a Cochrane review of high-quality research, reports John...

School lunch data was an inaccurate measure of student poverty, even before the shift to universal eligibility, write Ishtiaque Fazlul,...

New York City teachers were reported to the FBI for refusing to be vaccinated, charges a lawyer for teachers who were fired due to the...

Nearly 20 percent of U.S. children and teenagers were obese by the start of the pandemic, a rate that's quadrupled since the 1960's....

Exercise and sports -- at least one hour three times a week -- are a natural anti-depressant for teenagers, according to an analysis of...

Zidaan Kapoor, a math-loving 15-year-old, coped with his anxiety about severe food allergies by creating a "fight fears" app for other...

Forcing children to wear masks in school is pointless and cruel, argues Zachary Faria in the Washington Examiner. "Public school...

More transgender and gender-neutral teenagers are having "top surgery" -- double mastectomies -- to make their bodies conform with their...

Every night when I put my daughter to bed, I would say, "There are no wolves or bears in Palo Alto. They live a long way away." How old...

TANSTAAFL -- "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch" -- still applies, if you remember the taxpayers, but schools in some states will...

School closures were a mistake, writes Joseph G. Allen, an associate professor and director of the Healthy Buildings program at Harvard's...

School cafeterias are not segregated by gender or sexuality in any state in the union. School sports teams, restrooms and locker rooms,...

Photo: Aspen Institute Project Play Sofia Velasquez, 15, enjoys playing soccer for her Chicago high school, but games keep getting...

The table above is based on some of the items in the list “For every 100 girls….” that I featured last April on CD here. The list was...

Limiting kids’ recreational screen time to less than two hours a day boosts their brainpower, concludes a new study, reports Hamza Shaban...

More schools are teaching yoga in hopes of promoting mindfulness and relieving stress, writes Alia Wong in The Atlantic. However, yoga is...